From: Alexander Shiyan <eagle.alexander923@gmail.com>
To: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH master v2 5/5] ARM64: place PBL malloc area at start of barebox proper malloc area
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 16:12:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP1tNvT23wr-_Usy5q+VMu3qLXAfmWEnRTP=WqrMx+e7Bk-D8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260527121649.3365172-6-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: Alexander Shiyan <eagle.alexander923@gmail.com>
ср, 27 мая 2026 г. в 15:17, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>:
>
> The early PBL malloc area used by the Rockchip code overlaps the region
> used for OP-TEE. Moving it a bit lower would overlap the region occupied
> by the scratch area.
>
> With the switch to CONFIG_BAREBOX_MEMORY_OFFSET, we can compute the start
> of the malloc area in barebox proper without knowing how big barebox will
> eventually be, so make use of that and always place the PBL malloc area
> exactly at the start of the eventual barebox proper memory area.
>
> The memory will automatically be reclaimed when the TLSF allocator is
> instantiated and we will be sure not to overwrite anything by allocating
> in PBL.
>
> Reported-by: Alexander Shiyan <eagle.alexander923@gmail.com>
> Fixes: 76b1f31275fe ("ARM: rockchip: initialize PBL malloc")
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> ---
> arch/arm/cpu/common.c | 5 +++++
> arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c | 4 ++++
> arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h | 10 ++++++----
> arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/common.c b/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
> index 6b82ee8b810c..adb5d6a02bc8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
> @@ -114,8 +114,13 @@ void print_pbl_mem_layout(ulong membase, ulong endmem, ulong barebox_base)
> #endif
> printf("arm_mem_barebox_image = 0x%08lx+0x%08lx\n",
> barebox_base, arm_mem_barebox_image_end(endmem) - barebox_base);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
> + printf("pbl_malloc area = 0x%08lx+0x%08x\n",
> + barebox_malloc_base(membase, endmem - membase), PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
> +#else
> printf("arm_mem_early_malloc = 0x%08lx+0x%08x\n",
> barebox_base - PBL_MALLOC_SIZE, PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
> +#endif
> printf("membase = 0x%08lx+0x%08lx\n",
> membase, endmem - membase);
> }
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c b/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
> index 61bcba6e8549..55bbe0019cc4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
> @@ -75,7 +75,11 @@ void __noreturn barebox_pbl_start(unsigned long membase, unsigned long memsize,
>
> handoff_data = (void *)barebox_base + ALIGN(uncompressed_len, 8) + MAX_BSS_SIZE;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
> + pbl_malloc_init(barebox_malloc_base(membase, memsize), PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
> +#else
> pbl_malloc_init(barebox_base - PBL_MALLOC_SIZE, PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
> +#endif
>
> #ifdef DEBUG
> print_pbl_mem_layout(membase, endmem, barebox_base);
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
> index 38cceba010ed..f75cddc77243 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
> @@ -95,10 +95,12 @@ void *barebox_arm_boot_dtb(void);
> * + BSS) rounded to SZ_1M
> * ↓
> * ---------------------- arm_mem_barebox_image() ---------------------
> - * ↑
> - * SZ_128K
> - * ↓
> - * ------------------------ arm_mem_early_malloc ----------------------
> + * ARM32 ↑ | ↕ ARM64
> + * PBL_MALLOC_SIZE |------- pbl_malloc area end ------
> + * ↓ | ↑
> + * --- arm_mem_early_malloc --------| PBL_MALLOC_SIZE
> + * | ↓
> + * ----- pbl_malloc area start -------
> */
> void print_pbl_mem_layout(ulong membase, ulong endmem, ulong barebox_base);
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
> index 14797a1e0601..f9dbc8b20c5a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static void rockchip_atf_load_bl31(void *fdt)
> unsigned long bl31_ep;
>
> mmu_early_enable(membase[0], memsize[0]);
> - pbl_malloc_init(membase[0] + memsize[0] - PBL_MALLOC_SIZE, PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
> + pbl_malloc_init(membase[0], memsize[0]);
>
> bl31_ep = load_elf64_image_phdr(&bl31);
>
> --
> 2.47.3
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-27 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-27 12:15 [PATCH master v2 0/5] ARM64: unify pbl and proper malloc area start Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-27 12:15 ` [PATCH master v2 1/5] arch: introduce new CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MALLOC_SIZE Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-27 12:15 ` [PATCH master v2 2/5] arch: introduce CONFIG_BAREBOX_MEMORY_OFFSET Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-27 12:15 ` [PATCH master v2 3/5] ARM64: switch to CONFIG_BAREBOX_MEMORY_OFFSET Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-27 12:15 ` [PATCH master v2 4/5] ARM64: configs: drop CONFIG_MALLOC_SIZE=0x0 as it's now the default Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-27 12:15 ` [PATCH master v2 5/5] ARM64: place PBL malloc area at start of barebox proper malloc area Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-27 13:12 ` Alexander Shiyan [this message]
2026-05-28 11:04 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-28 12:17 ` Alexander Shiyan
2026-05-28 12:50 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-28 10:55 ` [PATCH master v2] fixup! " Ahmad Fatoum
2026-05-28 12:16 ` Alexander Shiyan
2026-05-28 11:09 ` [PATCH master v2 0/5] ARM64: unify pbl and proper malloc area start Sascha Hauer
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