[PATCH v2 06/18] malloc: Provide a simple malloc for VPL

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Sep 20 10:12:45 CEST 2024


The VPL phase may want to use the smaller malloc() implementation, so
add an option for this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

(no changes since v1)

 common/spl/Kconfig.vpl | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/spl/Kconfig.vpl b/common/spl/Kconfig.vpl
index d06f36d4ee4..3dc0e95e09f 100644
--- a/common/spl/Kconfig.vpl
+++ b/common/spl/Kconfig.vpl
@@ -222,6 +222,15 @@ config VPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT
 	  lines). This enables the drivers in drivers/mtd/spi as part of a
 	  VPL build. This normally requires VPL_SPI_SUPPORT.
 
+config VPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
+	bool "Only use malloc_simple functions in the VPL"
+	default y
+	help
+	  Say Y here to only use the *_simple malloc functions from
+	  malloc_simple.c, rather then using the versions from dlmalloc.c;
+	  this will make the VPL binary smaller at the cost of more heap
+	  usage as the *_simple malloc functions do not re-use free-ed mem.
+
 config VPL_TEXT_BASE
 	hex "VPL Text Base"
 	default 0x0
-- 
2.43.0



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