[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: mx6: Reduce SPL malloc pool size

Stefano Babic
2015-11-20T21:24:46Z

On 20/11/2015 21:43, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Using 50 MiB malloc pool in SPL is nonsense. Since the caches are not
> enabled in SPL, it takes 2 seconds to init the pool and has no obvious
> benefit. Reduce the size to 1 MiB.

You're absolutely right ! Nice catch !

>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
> Cc: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
> ---
> include/configs/imx6_spl.h | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/configs/imx6_spl.h b/include/configs/imx6_spl.h
> index 1744f2c..43ce7fe 100644
> --- a/include/configs/imx6_spl.h
> +++ b/include/configs/imx6_spl.h
> @@ -63,15 +63,15 @@
>
> #if defined(CONFIG_MX6SX) || defined(CONFIG_MX6UL) || defined(CONFIG_MX6SL)
> #define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR 0x88200000
> -#define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE 0x100000 /* 1 MB */
> +#define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE 0x100000 /* 1 MB */
> #define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START 0x88300000
> -#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE 0x3200000 /* 50 MB */
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE 0x100000 /* 1 MB */
> #define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE 0x87800000
> #else
> #define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR 0x18200000
> #define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE 0x100000 /* 1 MB */
> #define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START 0x18300000
> -#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE 0x3200000 /* 50 MB */
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE 0x100000 /* 1 MB */
> #define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE 0x17800000
> #endif
> #endif
>

Tested-by: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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