[PATCH] zImage-arm: get rid of static offset

Daniel Mack zonque at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 14:49:48 PDT 2014


The code in arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c currently enforces a hard limit
on the maximum size a dtb blob can occupy. This limit is set to 32k,
which is quite low for device tree blobs nowadays.

Get rid of this assumption, and calculate the added size dynamically.
For this, we need to slurp in the dtb file earlier in order to
determine its size, because the memory hole allocation for 'base'
takes this size into account.

For ATAGs, we keep the current value of 32k, which should in fact be
enough.

With this change in place, the 'DTB too large!' error message can go
away. Successfully tested on a AM335x board.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann at raumfeld.com>
---
 kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c b/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
index bfbf290..2bf4f62 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/arm/kexec-zImage-arm.c
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 {
 	unsigned long base;
 	unsigned int atag_offset = 0x1000; /* 4k offset from memory start */
-	unsigned int offset = 0x8000;      /* 32k offset from memory start */
+	unsigned int extra_size;
 	const char *command_line;
 	char *modified_cmdline = NULL;
 	off_t command_line_len;
@@ -360,6 +360,15 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 		ramdisk_buf = slurp_file(ramdisk, &initrd_size);
 	}
 
+	extra_size = atag_offset;
+
+	if (dtb_file) {
+		dtb_buf = slurp_file(dtb_file, &dtb_length);
+		extra_size += _ALIGN(dtb_length, getpagesize());
+	} else if (use_atags) {
+		extra_size += 0x8000;	/* 32k should be plenty for ATAGs */
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * If we are loading a dump capture kernel, we need to update kernel
 	 * command line and also add some additional segments.
@@ -398,7 +407,8 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 		}
 		base = start;
 	} else {
-		base = locate_hole(info,len+offset,0,0,ULONG_MAX,INT_MAX);
+		base = locate_hole(info, len + extra_size, 0, 0,
+				   ULONG_MAX, INT_MAX);
 	}
 
 	if (base == ULONG_MAX)
@@ -428,8 +438,6 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 		 * Read a user-specified DTB file.
 		 */
 		if (dtb_file) {
-			dtb_buf = slurp_file(dtb_file, &dtb_length);
-
 			if (fdt_check_header(dtb_buf) != 0) {
 				fprintf(stderr, "Invalid FDT buffer.\n");
 				return -1;
@@ -452,11 +460,6 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 			create_flatten_tree(&dtb_buf, &dtb_length, command_line);
 		}
 
-		if (base + atag_offset + dtb_length > base + offset) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "DTB too large!\n");
-			return -1;
-		}
-
 		if (ramdisk) {
 			add_segment(info, ramdisk_buf, initrd_size,
 			            initrd_base, initrd_size);
@@ -485,9 +488,9 @@ int zImage_arm_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len,
 		            dtb_offset, dtb_length);
 	}
 
-	add_segment(info, buf, len, base + offset, len);
+	add_segment(info, buf, len, base + extra_size, len);
 
-	info->entry = (void*)base + offset;
+	info->entry = (void*)base + extra_size;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.9.0




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