[PATCH] ARM: Increase automatic malloc area space
Sascha Hauer
s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Jul 21 06:51:39 PDT 2014
This increases the malloc to half of the available memory in a
bank. This helps with some usecases requiring a lot of memory.
The other half is still available as scratch area and for
putting the kernel binary.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
arch/arm/cpu/start.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/start.c b/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
index 961873d..264420d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static noinline __noreturn void __start(unsigned long membase,
/*
* Maximum malloc space is the Kconfig value if given
- * or 64MB.
+ * or 1GB.
*/
if (MALLOC_SIZE > 0) {
malloc_start = malloc_end - MALLOC_SIZE;
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ static noinline __noreturn void __start(unsigned long membase,
malloc_start = membase;
} else {
malloc_start = malloc_end - (malloc_end - membase) / 2;
- if (malloc_end - malloc_start > SZ_64M)
- malloc_start = malloc_end - SZ_64M;
+ if (malloc_end - malloc_start > SZ_1G)
+ malloc_start = malloc_end - SZ_1G;
}
mem_malloc_init((void *)malloc_start, (void *)malloc_end - 1);
--
2.0.1
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