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From: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] microblaze: Fix bdiinfo pointer
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:45:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D1111CF.5090002@monstr.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101221190153.04CF1126EB1A@gemini.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Michal Simek,
> 
> In message <1292955178-13018-3-git-send-email-monstr@monstr.eu> you wrote:
>> Patch "Replace CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE by auto-generated value"
>> (sha1: 25ddd1fb0a2281b182529afbc8fda5de2dc16d96)
>> introduce GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE which is sizeof aligned gd_t
>> (currently 0x40).
>> Microblaze configs used 0x40(128) because this place also contained
>> board info structure which lies on the top of ram.
> 
> In the Subject: s/bdiinfo/bd_info/
> 
>> index eeef579..8232cf0 100644
>> --- a/arch/microblaze/lib/board.c
>> +++ b/arch/microblaze/lib/board.c
>> @@ -91,15 +91,16 @@ void board_init (void)
>>  	bd_t *bd;
>>  	init_fnc_t **init_fnc_ptr;
>>  	gd = (gd_t *) CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET;
>> +	bd = (bd_t *) CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET - GENERATED_BD_INFO_SIZE;
> 
> This is actually wrong.
> 
> You are using CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET as if it were
> CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_ADDR, but it ain't so:  it is an _offset_, and NOT
> and address.

I agree. BTW: Maybe nios2 and sparc use it too.

> 
>> -	memset ((void *)gd, 0, GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE);
>> -	gd->bd = (bd_t *) (gd + 1);	/* At end of global data */
>> +	memset ((void *)bd, 0, GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE
>> +						+ GENERATED_BD_INFO_SIZE);
> 
> Don't do this. Instead, use two separate memset() calls, one for gd
> and another one for bd. The stucts may be in a contiguous area now,
> but you would probably run into nasty bugs if this gets changed one
> day.

I just wanted to save some instructions and no problem to separate it.

Thanks,
Michal

-- 
Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng)
w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854
Maintainer of Linux kernel 2.6 Microblaze Linux - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/
Microblaze U-BOOT custodian

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-21 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21 18:12 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] lib/asm-offsets.c: Clean coding style Michal Simek
2010-12-21 18:12 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] Autogenerate GENERATED_BD_INFO_SIZE Michal Simek
2010-12-21 18:12   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] microblaze: Fix bdiinfo pointer Michal Simek
2010-12-21 19:01     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-21 20:45       ` Michal Simek [this message]
2010-12-21 21:15         ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-21 18:56   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] Autogenerate GENERATED_BD_INFO_SIZE Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-21 18:55 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] lib/asm-offsets.c: Clean coding style Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-21 20:02   ` Michal Simek
2010-12-21 21:11     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-22  6:39       ` Michal Simek
2010-12-22  7:00         ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-22  7:19           ` Michal Simek
2010-12-22 11:38 ` Sergei Shtylyov

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