[PATCH v2] ARM: i.MX8M: esdctl: split memory banks for devices with >4G

[Marco Felsch]

On 23-09-04, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> On 31.08.23 16:47, Marco Felsch wrote:
> > At the moment the whole available memory is added to one single memory
> > bank "ram0". This can cause barebox chainload issues on devices with a
> > huge amount of memory like the i.MX8MP-EVK which has 6G of RAM if the
> > barebox pbl binary is to large.
> > 
> > The reason for this issues is that memory_bank_first_find_space()
> > returns the memory area with the largest amount of free space on the
> > first memory bank. So in case of Debix SOM-A 8G and i.MX8MP-EVK 6G this
> > is the area crossing the 4G boundary. This cause the barebox pbl code to
> > trigger a MMU exception once the early MMU gets enabled which is
> > configured for sizes <=4G.
> > 
> > Split the memory space into two memory banks: "ram0" and "ram1" to fix
> > this issue.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> > v2:
> > - drop add_mem() usage and use arm_add_mem_device() directly
> > 
> >  arch/arm/mach-imx/esdctl.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/esdctl.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/esdctl.c
> > index 1798ad48e50a..7f313b2337ae 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/esdctl.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/esdctl.c
> > @@ -510,16 +510,31 @@ static resource_size_t imx8m_ddrc_sdram_size(void __iomem *ddrc, unsigned buswid
> >  				   reduced_adress_space, mstr);
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int _imx8m_ddrc_add_mem(void *mmdcbase, struct imx_esdctl_data *data,
> > +			       unsigned int buswidth)
> > +{
> > +	resource_size_t size = imx8m_ddrc_sdram_size(mmdcbase, buswidth);
> > +	resource_size_t size0, size1;
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	size0 = min_t(resource_size_t, SZ_4G - MX8M_DDR_CSD1_BASE_ADDR, size);
> > +	size1 = size - size0;
> > +
> > +	ret = arm_add_mem_device("ram0", data->base0, size0);
> > +	if (ret || size1 == 0)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	return arm_add_mem_device("ram1", SZ_4G, size1);
> 
> This gives a warning when compiling the file for 32-bit, because resource_size_t
> is 32-bit there, while SZ_4G is always an unsigned long long.

Thanks for this info. Size >= 4G on 32-bit systems is useless anyways. I
will guard this by an #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT and add a comment.

Regards,
  Marco

> 
> > +}
> > +
> >  static int imx8m_ddrc_add_mem(void *mmdcbase, struct imx_esdctl_data *data)
> >  {
> > -	return arm_add_mem_device("ram0", data->base0,
> > -			   imx8m_ddrc_sdram_size(mmdcbase, 32));
> > +	return _imx8m_ddrc_add_mem(mmdcbase, data, 32);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static int imx8mn_ddrc_add_mem(void *mmdcbase, struct imx_esdctl_data *data)
> >  {
> > -	return arm_add_mem_device("ram0", data->base0,
> > -			   imx8m_ddrc_sdram_size(mmdcbase, 16));
> > +	return _imx8m_ddrc_add_mem(mmdcbase, data, 16);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static resource_size_t imx7d_ddrc_sdram_size(void __iomem *ddrc)
> 
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