[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: socfpga: check total size of SPL

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 21:36:54 UTC 2018


On 10/30/2018 10:30 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> On 30.10.2018 22:26, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 10/30/2018 10:23 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
>>> Correctly define CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT to make the default arm
>>> linker script for SPL check the total SRAM size available for SPL
>>> (code, data, bss, heap, global data).
>>>
>>> The previously existing define CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE seems to only
>>> check the binary size (which is without bss, heap and gd).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>   include/configs/socfpga_common.h | 7 +++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
>>> b/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
>>> index 2330143cf1..9103d0a966 100644
>>> --- a/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
>>> +++ b/include/configs/socfpga_common.h
>>> @@ -242,6 +242,13 @@ unsigned int cm_get_qspi_controller_clk_hz(void);
>>>   #define CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE        CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR
>>>   #define CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE        CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE
>>>   +/* Check total size of SPL including BSS, malloc area and gd */
>>> +#include <generated/generic-asm-offsets.h>
>>> +#define CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT    (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR - \
>>> +                     CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR - \
>>> +                     CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN - \
>>> +                     GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE)
>> Are you sure this calculation is correct ? INIT_SP_ADDR is I think the
>> SRAM offset in the address space. Shouldn't that contain INIT_SP_SIZE or
>> something ?
> 
> Yes, I'm pretty sure. INIT_SP_ADDR is defined as INIT_RAM_ADDR +
> INIT_RAM_SIZE.
> So by subtracting INIT_RAM_ADDR again, I effectively get "INIT_RAM_ADDR
> - MALLOC_F_LEN - GBL_DATA_SIZE".
> 
> But I did it this way to keep it working after Stefan's fix for
> reserving the boot counter location is applied.

Now that's confusing :-) Add a comment explaining this into a V2 please,
otherwise the confusion will continue ...

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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