[PATCH v3 2/7] common: Tidy up how malloc() is inited

[Ilias Apalodimas]

Hi Simon,

I did review enough of this series in v1 [0]. Please resend it with
the proper tags added. Did anything change and you dropped by r-b?
Because the changelog says no changes

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 at 16:33, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> The call to malloc() is a bit strange. The naming of the arguments
> suggests that an address is passed, but in fact it is a pointer, at
> least in the board_init_r() function and SPL equivalent.
>
> Update it to work as described. Add a function comment as well.
>
> Note that this does adjustment does not extend into the malloc()
> implementation itself, apart from changing mem_malloc_init(), since
> there are lots of casts and pointers and integers are used
> interchangeably.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> ---
>
> (no changes since v1)
>
>  common/board_r.c  | 3 +--
>  common/dlmalloc.c | 8 +++++---
>  common/spl/spl.c  | 4 +---
>  include/malloc.h  | 8 ++++++++
>  4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/board_r.c b/common/board_r.c
> index 1acad069d92..60eba0942d8 100644
> --- a/common/board_r.c
> +++ b/common/board_r.c
> @@ -204,8 +204,7 @@ static int initr_malloc(void)
>          */
>         start = gd->relocaddr - TOTAL_MALLOC_LEN;
>         gd_set_malloc_start(start);
> -       mem_malloc_init((ulong)map_sysmem(start, TOTAL_MALLOC_LEN),
> -                       TOTAL_MALLOC_LEN);
> +       mem_malloc_init(start, TOTAL_MALLOC_LEN);
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> diff --git a/common/dlmalloc.c b/common/dlmalloc.c
> index 1ac7ce3f43c..cc4d3a0a028 100644
> --- a/common/dlmalloc.c
> +++ b/common/dlmalloc.c
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
>  #include <asm/global_data.h>
>
>  #include <malloc.h>
> +#include <mapmem.h>
> +#include <string.h>
>  #include <asm/io.h>
>  #include <valgrind/memcheck.h>
>
> @@ -598,9 +600,9 @@ void *sbrk(ptrdiff_t increment)
>
>  void mem_malloc_init(ulong start, ulong size)
>  {
> -       mem_malloc_start = start;
> -       mem_malloc_end = start + size;
> -       mem_malloc_brk = start;
> +       mem_malloc_start = (ulong)map_sysmem(start, size);
> +       mem_malloc_end = mem_malloc_start + size;
> +       mem_malloc_brk = mem_malloc_start;
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_DEFAULT_TO_INIT
>         malloc_init();
> diff --git a/common/spl/spl.c b/common/spl/spl.c
> index 94657d00591..1ceb63daf31 100644
> --- a/common/spl/spl.c
> +++ b/common/spl/spl.c
> @@ -678,9 +678,7 @@ void board_init_r(gd_t *dummy1, ulong dummy2)
>         spl_set_bd();
>
>         if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_SYS_MALLOC)) {
> -               mem_malloc_init((ulong)map_sysmem(SPL_SYS_MALLOC_START,
> -                                                 SPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIZE),
> -                               SPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIZE);
> +               mem_malloc_init(SPL_SYS_MALLOC_START, SPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIZE);
>                 gd->flags |= GD_FLG_FULL_MALLOC_INIT;
>         }
>         if (!(gd->flags & GD_FLG_SPL_INIT)) {
> diff --git a/include/malloc.h b/include/malloc.h
> index 07d3e90a855..9e0be482416 100644
> --- a/include/malloc.h
> +++ b/include/malloc.h
> @@ -981,6 +981,14 @@ extern ulong mem_malloc_start;
>  extern ulong mem_malloc_end;
>  extern ulong mem_malloc_brk;
>
> +/**
> + * mem_malloc_init() - Set up the malloc() pool
> + *
> + * Sets the region of memory to be used for all future calls to malloc(), etc.
> + *
> + * @start: Start address
> + * @size: Size in bytes
> + */
>  void mem_malloc_init(ulong start, ulong size);
>
>  #ifdef __cplusplus
> --
> 2.34.1
>

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/CAFLszThRCmPDfPxWZf9ZhbwcHLNhdUrzNCLwJKkz=17x96ZEJg@mail.gmail.com/