[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] common/memsize.c: Increase save array for supporting memory size > 4GB
Marek Vasut
marex at denx.de
Sat Jun 23 03:29:14 UTC 2018
On 06/21/2018 08:31 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 06:34 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 06/20/2018 09:06 AM, tien.fong.chee at intel.com wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee at intel.com>
>>>
>>> In ARM 64-bits, memory size can be supported is more than 4GB,
>>> hence increasing save array is needed to cope with testing larger
>>> memory.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Changes in v2:
>>> - Change save array size to save[BITS_PER_LONG - 1]
>>> ---
>>> common/memsize.c | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/common/memsize.c b/common/memsize.c
>>> index 5670e95..13b0047 100644
>>> --- a/common/memsize.c
>>> +++ b/common/memsize.c
>>> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
>>> long get_ram_size(long *base, long maxsize)
>>> {
>>> volatile long *addr;
>>> - long save[31];
>>> + long save[BITS_PER_LONG - 1];
>>> long save_base;
>>> long cnt;
>>> long val;
>>>
>> Does this work with LPAE systems, where bits per long == 32 and the
>> address space is bigger ? Or with similar setups ? I mean, you can
>> have
>>>
>>> 4 GiB of RAM on 32bit system ...
> This function is designed to work with 32bit or 64 bits system, for
> example the argument such as maxsize can be 32bit or 64 bit, if value
> larger than 4GiB is passed as maxsize argument with 32bit system, the
> whole thing will go wrong.
And what do you do when you identify a problem in mainline ? :-)
--
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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