[PATCH master v3 5/5] ARM64: place PBL malloc area at start of barebox proper malloc area

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Thu May 28 04:02:19 PDT 2026


The early PBL malloc area used by the Rockchip code overlaps the region
used for OP-TEE. Moving it a bit lower would overlap the region occupied
by the scratch area.

With the switch to CONFIG_BAREBOX_MEMORY_OFFSET, we can compute the start
of the malloc area in barebox proper without knowing how big barebox will
eventually be, so make use of that and always place the PBL malloc area
exactly at the start of the eventual barebox proper memory area.

The memory will automatically be reclaimed when the TLSF allocator is
instantiated and we will be sure not to overwrite anything by allocating
in PBL.

Reported-by: Alexander Shiyan <eagle.alexander923 at gmail.com>
Fixes: 76b1f31275fe ("ARM: rockchip: initialize PBL malloc")
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm/cpu/common.c              |  5 +++++
 arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c          |  4 ++++
 arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h | 10 ++++++----
 arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c       |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/common.c b/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
index 6b82ee8b810c..adb5d6a02bc8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/common.c
@@ -114,8 +114,13 @@ void print_pbl_mem_layout(ulong membase, ulong endmem, ulong barebox_base)
 #endif
 	printf("arm_mem_barebox_image = 0x%08lx+0x%08lx\n",
 	       barebox_base, arm_mem_barebox_image_end(endmem) - barebox_base);
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
+	printf("pbl_malloc area       = 0x%08lx+0x%08x\n",
+	       barebox_malloc_base(membase, endmem - membase), PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
+#else
 	printf("arm_mem_early_malloc  = 0x%08lx+0x%08x\n",
 	       barebox_base - PBL_MALLOC_SIZE, PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
+#endif
 	printf("membase               = 0x%08lx+0x%08lx\n",
 	       membase, endmem - membase);
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c b/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
index 61bcba6e8549..55bbe0019cc4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/uncompress.c
@@ -75,7 +75,11 @@ void __noreturn barebox_pbl_start(unsigned long membase, unsigned long memsize,
 
 	handoff_data = (void *)barebox_base + ALIGN(uncompressed_len, 8) + MAX_BSS_SIZE;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
+	pbl_malloc_init(barebox_malloc_base(membase, memsize), PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
+#else
 	pbl_malloc_init(barebox_base - PBL_MALLOC_SIZE, PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
+#endif
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
 	print_pbl_mem_layout(membase, endmem, barebox_base);
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
index 38cceba010ed..f75cddc77243 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h
@@ -95,10 +95,12 @@ void *barebox_arm_boot_dtb(void);
  *                       + BSS) rounded to SZ_1M
  *                                   ↓
  *  ---------------------- arm_mem_barebox_image() ---------------------
- *                                   ↑
- *                                SZ_128K
- *                                   ↓
- *  ------------------------ arm_mem_early_malloc ----------------------
+ *     ARM32      ↑                  |                ↕         ARM64
+ *         PBL_MALLOC_SIZE           |------- pbl_malloc area end ------
+ *                ↓                  |                ↑
+ *  --- arm_mem_early_malloc --------|         PBL_MALLOC_SIZE
+ *                                   |                ↓
+ *                                   ----- pbl_malloc area start -------
  */
 void print_pbl_mem_layout(ulong membase, ulong endmem, ulong barebox_base);
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
index 14797a1e0601..74b8cdc2f499 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/atf.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static void rockchip_atf_load_bl31(void *fdt)
 	unsigned long bl31_ep;
 
 	mmu_early_enable(membase[0], memsize[0]);
-	pbl_malloc_init(membase[0] + memsize[0] - PBL_MALLOC_SIZE, PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
+	pbl_malloc_init(barebox_malloc_base(membase[0], memsize[0]), PBL_MALLOC_SIZE);
 
 	bl31_ep = load_elf64_image_phdr(&bl31);
 
-- 
2.47.3




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