[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm/lib: Add get_effective_memsize() to board.c

[York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>]

On 02/10/2014 02:37 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 14:33 -0800, York Sun wrote:
>> On 02/10/2014 02:19 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 14:04 -0800, York Sun wrote:
>>>> This function has been around for powerpc. It is used for systems with
>>>> memory more than CONFIG_MAX_MEM_MAPPED. In case of non-contiguous memory,
>>>> this feature can limit U-boot to one block without going over the limit.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm/lib/board.c |   20 +++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/board.c b/arch/arm/lib/board.c
>>>> index b770e25..b31c8ff 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/lib/board.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/board.c
>>>> @@ -263,6 +263,24 @@ init_fnc_t *init_sequence[] = {
>>>>  	NULL,
>>>>  };
>>>>  
>>>> +phys_size_t get_effective_memsize(void)
>>>> +{
>>>> +#ifndef	CONFIG_VERY_BIG_RAM
>>>
>>> Whitespace
>>
>> I think I have put a tab instead of a space.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>>> +	return gd->ram_size;
>>>> +#else
>>>> +	/* limit stack to what we can reasonable map */
>>>> +	return ((gd->ram_size > CONFIG_MAX_MEM_MAPPED) ?
>>>> +		CONFIG_MAX_MEM_MAPPED : gd->ram_size);
>>>> +#endif
>>>> +}
>>>
>>> Is there anything really arch-specific about this function?
>>>
>>
>> Not at all. It is not called by any other file either. I tried to move the
>> function phys_size_t get_effective_memsize(void) out, but I don't see which
>> common file fits this purpose.
> 
> Not having an obvious place to put it isn't a good reason to keep it
> duplicated in arch code.  Moving it to generic code would let you also
> avoid overriding things like logbuffer_base().
> 

I see the benefit of putting the code to common file and modify the
common/cmd_log.c for logbuffer_base(). Can you suggest a location for
get_effective_memsize(void)? Only powerpc uses this function before this patch.
Putting into common.h seems too generic.

York