[PATCH] configs: Relocate malloc and bss address

Peng Fan peng.fan at oss.nxp.com
Fri Jul 11 05:54:25 CEST 2025


On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 12:12:53PM +0800, dinesh.maniyam at altera.com wrote:
>From: Dinesh Maniyam <dinesh.maniyam at intel.com>
>

Nit, update subject with socfpga_agilex5: config:

>With Inline ECC enabled, the bottom 1/8 of DDR is reserved
>for ECC parity bits and must not be used for general data address
>allocation. Previously, the SPL bss and malloc addresses were allocated
>inside this ECC parity region if the DDR size is 1GB.
>
>This caused ECC hardware to detect stale or invalid parity bits,
>leading to data correction attempts and DMA polling hangs or failures.
>
>Fix this by relocating the malloc and bss to the usable 7/8 region of DDR
>and is fully ECC-safe.
>
>This change ensures reliable ddr address operation and
>prevents unintended memory corruption.
>
>Signed-off-by: Dinesh Maniyam <dinesh.maniyam at intel.com>
>---
> configs/socfpga_agilex5_defconfig | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/configs/socfpga_agilex5_defconfig b/configs/socfpga_agilex5_defconfig
>index 4ac0a5d9b99..01c5ac88015 100644
>--- a/configs/socfpga_agilex5_defconfig
>+++ b/configs/socfpga_agilex5_defconfig
>@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="socfpga_agilex5_socdk"
> CONFIG_DM_RESET=y
> CONFIG_SPL_STACK=0x7d000
> CONFIG_SPL_HAS_BSS_LINKER_SECTION=y
>-CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR=0xbff00000
>+CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR=0x9ff00000

Commit says bottom is reserved, but here bss start is moved to low address.
ECC area is at top area?

Regards,
Peng


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