[RFC PATCH 2/3] riscv: Add early_param to decrease firmware region

guoren at kernel.org guoren at kernel.org
Mon Nov 22 17:57:16 PST 2021


From: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>

Using riscv.fw_size in cmdline to tell the kernel what the
firmware (opensbi) size is. Then reserve the proper size of
firmware to save memory instead of the whole 2MB. It's helpful
to satisfy a small memory system (D1s/F133 from Allwinner).

Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup.patel at wdc.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
---
 arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 920e78f8c3e4..f7db6d40213d 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -159,6 +159,15 @@ static int __init early_mem(char *p)
 }
 early_param("mem", early_mem);
 
+static phys_addr_t firmware_size __initdata;
+static int __init early_get_firmware_size(char *arg)
+{
+	firmware_size = memparse(arg, &arg);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("riscv.fwsz", early_get_firmware_size);
+
 static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
 {
 	phys_addr_t vmlinux_end = __pa_symbol(&_end);
@@ -224,7 +233,10 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
 	/*
 	 * Reserve OpenSBI region and depends on PMP to deny accesses.
 	 */
-	memblock_reserve(__pa(PAGE_OFFSET), LOAD_OFFSET);
+	if (firmware_size > PAGE_SIZE)
+		memblock_reserve(__pa(PAGE_OFFSET), firmware_size);
+	else
+		memblock_reserve(__pa(PAGE_OFFSET), LOAD_OFFSET);
 
 	early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem();
 	dma_contiguous_reserve(dma32_phys_limit);
-- 
2.25.1




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