[PATCH v3 1/1] arm: sunxi: increase SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Tue Aug 25 06:10:22 CEST 2020


On 7/25/20 8:18 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> The current default of 0x400 for SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN is too small if any
> additional drivers marked as DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC are loaded before
> relocation.
>
> CONFIG_RSA=y which is needed for UEFI secure boot or for FIT image
> verification loads the driver mod_exp_sw which has DM_FLAG_PRE_RELOC.
>
> CONFIG_LOG=Y is another setting requiring additional early malloc
> area, cf. log_init().
>
> When running pine64-lts_defconfig with CONFIG_RSA=y and debug UART enabled
> we see as output in main U-Boot
>
>     alloc_simple() alloc space exhausted
>
> With this patch the default values of SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN and
> SPL_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN on ARCH_SUNXI are raised to 0x2000.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
> Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>

With current pine64-lts_defconfig we get a warning:

"alloc space exhausted"

So, please, merge the patch.

Best regards

Heinrich


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