On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > > > $ du -b arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dtb 
> > > > 70212   arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dtb
> > > > 
> > > > $ echo $((0x10000))
> > > > 65536
> > > > 
> > > > I would say, problem is because omap3-n900 binary DT is too large
> > 
> > I agree.
> > 
> > > OK if that's the case, then your patch makes sense to me. It also
> > > seems we can have the temporary stack be larger than the initial
> > > stack just for atags_to_fdt.
> > 
> > The stack size isn't the issue, but rather its location.  We need to 
> > position it away from the DT data.  The DT size is known and we could 
> > use that, plus some room for the insertion of new data coming from the
> > ATAG conversion.
> > 
> > Something like the following would be a more robust solution:
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S 
> > b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > index 68be901759..89718de9dd 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
> > @@ -263,16 +263,37 @@ restart:      adr     r0, LC0
> >              * OK... Let's do some funky business here.
> >              * If we do have a DTB appended to zImage, and we do have
> >              * an ATAG list around, we want the later to be translated
> > -            * and folded into the former here.  To be on the safe side,
> > -            * let's temporarily move  the stack away into the malloc
> > -            * area.  No GOT fixup has occurred yet, but none of the
> > -            * code we're about to call uses any global variable.
> > +            * and folded into the former here. No GOT fixup has occurred
> > +            * yet, but none of the code we're about to call uses any
> > +            * global variable.
> >             */
> > -           add     sp, sp, #0x10000
> > +
> > +           /* Get the initial DTB size */
> > +           ldr     r5, [r6, #4]
> > +#ifndef __ARMEB__
> > +           /* convert to little endian */
> > +           eor     r1, r5, r5, ror #16
> > +           bic     r1, r1, #0x00ff0000
> > +           mov     r5, r5, ror #8
> > +           eor     r5, r5, r1, lsr #8
> > +#endif
> > +           /* 50% DTB growth should be good enough */
> > +           add     r5, r5, r5, lsr #1
> > +           /* preserve 64-bit alignment */
> > +           add     r5, r5, #7
> > +           bic     r5, r5, #7
> > +           /* clamp to 32KB min and 1MB max */
> > +           movs    r1, r5, lsr #15
> > +           moveq   r5, #(1 << 15)
> > +           movs    r1, r5, lsr #20
> > +           movne   r5, #(1 << 20)
> 
> Dunno. Would it be easier/simpler to just use 1MB, always? Do we
> support machines with <16MB RAM?

If people are used to put other things relatively close to the kernel 
image like, say, some initrd image, then I'd prefer to be more 
conservative and avoid spreading out too much.


Nicolas
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