[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] common/memsize.c: Increase save array for supporting memory size > 4GB

[Chee, Tien Fong <tien.fong.chee@intel.com>]

On Sat, 2018-06-23 at 05:29 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 06/21/2018 08:31 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 06:34 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 06/20/2018 09:06 AM, tien.fong.chee at intel.com wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > From: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee@intel.com>
> > > > 
> > > > In ARM 64-bits, memory size can be supported is more than 4GB,
> > > > hence increasing save array is needed to cope with testing
> > > > larger
> > > > memory.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee@intel.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > > Changes in v2:
> > > > - Change save array size to save[BITS_PER_LONG - 1]
> > > > ---
> > > >  common/memsize.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/common/memsize.c b/common/memsize.c
> > > > index 5670e95..13b0047 100644
> > > > --- a/common/memsize.c
> > > > +++ b/common/memsize.c
> > > > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
> > > >  long get_ram_size(long *base, long maxsize)
> > > >  {
> > > >  	volatile long *addr;
> > > > -	long           save[31];
> > > > +	long           save[BITS_PER_LONG - 1];
> > > >  	long           save_base;
> > > >  	long           cnt;
> > > >  	long           val;
> > > > 
> > > Does this work with LPAE systems, where bits per long == 32 and
> > > the
> > > address space is bigger ? Or with similar setups ? I mean, you
> > > can
> > > have
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 4 GiB of RAM on 32bit system ...
> > This function is designed to work with 32bit or 64 bits system, for
> > example the argument such as maxsize can be 32bit or 64 bit, if
> > value
> > larger than 4GiB is passed as maxsize argument with 32bit system,
> > the
> > whole thing will go wrong.
> And what do you do when you identify a problem in mainline ? :-)
> 
I have no idea at this moment, how about fixing the issue for save
array in 64-bit 1st?