[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] armv8: spl: Call spl_relocate_stack_gd for ARMv8

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Feb 22 03:59:35 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 17 February 2017 at 16:41, André Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> On 17/02/17 23:37, Philipp Tomsich wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> As part of the startup process for boards using the SPL, we need to
>> call spl_relocate_stack_gd. This is needed to set up malloc with its
>> DRAM buffer.
>
> I wonder how we could get away without this before?
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
>
> That looks good to me now, also thanks for adding the comment.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>
> Cheers,
> Andre.
>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/lib/crt0_64.S | 12 ++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

But please see nit below.

>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/crt0_64.S b/arch/arm/lib/crt0_64.S
>> index 19c6a98..9f55d4f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/lib/crt0_64.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/crt0_64.S
>> @@ -109,8 +109,16 @@ relocation_return:
>>   */
>>       bl      c_runtime_cpu_setup             /* still call old routine */
>>  #endif /* !CONFIG_SPL_BUILD */
>> -
>> -/* TODO: For SPL, call spl_relocate_stack_gd() to alloc stack relocation */
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD)
>> +     bl      spl_relocate_stack_gd           /* may return NULL */
>> +     /* Perform 'sp = (x0 != NULL) ? x0 : sp' while working
>> +        around the constraint that conditional moves can not
>> +        have 'sp' as an operand */

/*
 * Perform ...
 * ...
 */

>> +     mov     x1, sp
>> +     cmp     x0, #0
>> +     csel    x0, x0, x1, ne
>> +     mov     sp, x0
>> +#endif
>>
>>  /*
>>   * Clear BSS section
>>
>

Regards,
Simon


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