N900 v3.19-rc5 arm atags_to_fdt.c is broken

Pali Rohár pali.rohar at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 07:26:12 PST 2015


On Tuesday 27 January 2015 16:16:24 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > 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:
> > Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
> > 
> > (Note, that in 3.19 dts for n900 got too big, so we are
> > actually triggering old bugs. That means that this is a
> > regression fix, and should go in ASAP).
> 
> It is queued here:
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id
> =8294/1
> 
> 
> Nicolas

I tested your patch and fdt_open_into() does not return error 
FDT_ERR_NOSPACE anymore. It is working. So you can add my

Tested-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com>

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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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