[U-Boot] [PATCH] spl: add debug print for early malloc usage

Simon Goldschmidt simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 10:37:32 UTC 2019


On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:30 AM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On 2/26/19 10:27 PM, Simon Goldschmidt wrote:
> > To find out how big the early malloc heap must be in SPL, add a debug
> > print statement that dumps its usage before switching to relocated heap
> > in spl_relocate_stack_gd() via CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_MALLOC_SIMPLE_LEN.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >
> >  common/spl/spl.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/common/spl/spl.c b/common/spl/spl.c
> > index 2e2af1b28e..88d4b8a9bf 100644
> > --- a/common/spl/spl.c
> > +++ b/common/spl/spl.c
> > @@ -728,6 +728,8 @@ ulong spl_relocate_stack_gd(void)
> >
> >  #if defined(CONFIG_SPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE) && CONFIG_VAL(SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN)
> >       if (CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_MALLOC_SIMPLE_LEN) {
> > +             debug("SPL malloc() before relocation used 0x%lx bytes (%ld KB)\n",
> > +                   gd->malloc_ptr, gd->malloc_ptr / 1024);
>
> Shouldn't this use %p ?

Despite its name, 'gd->malloc_ptr' is of type 'unsigned long', so I
think this is
correct. After all, I only copied the code from other places where the heap
usage is dumped, too.

Regards,
Simon

>
> >               ptr -= CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_MALLOC_SIMPLE_LEN;
> >               gd->malloc_base = ptr;
> >               gd->malloc_limit = CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_MALLOC_SIMPLE_LEN;
> >
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut


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