[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 4/4] arm: socfpga: gen5: reduce SPL pre-reloc malloc

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Apr 9 19:34:11 UTC 2019


On 4/9/19 9:02 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> By enabling debug prints in malloc_simple, we can see that SPL for socfpga
> gen5 does by far not need the 8 KiB malloc pool currently allocated for
> SPL in pre-reloc phase.
> 
> On socfpga_socrates, 1304 bytes are currently used (and this increases by
> ~200 bytes only for the sdram/reset fixes in socfpga-next).
> 
> To prevent wasting precious SRAM space, let's reduce the initial heap used
> for SPL to 2 KiB. This is still some hundred bytes more than currently
> used. Also, the gen5 SPL enables stack and heap in DDR memory pretty
> early. Only the initial uclass/dm parsing, serial console and DDR
> initialization is done in the initial heap, so these 2 KiB should be
> enough for all boards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v4: None
> Changes in v3:
> - adapt to socfpga-next
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - added patch to reduce gen5 SPL initial malloc pool to 2 KiB
> 
>  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig
> index 3c6c63067d..8f7b79f586 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/Kconfig
> @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ config NR_DRAM_BANKS
>  config SPL_STACK_R_ADDR
>  	default 0x00800000 if TARGET_SOCFPGA_GEN5
>  
> +config SPL_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
> +	default 0x800 if TARGET_SOCFPGA_GEN5
> +
>  config SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION_TYPE
>  	default 0xa2
>  
> 

Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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