[PATCH] ARM: Increase automatic malloc area space

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Jul 21 06:51:39 PDT 2014


This increases the malloc to half of the available memory in a
bank. This helps with some usecases requiring a lot of memory.
The other half is still available as scratch area and for
putting the kernel binary.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm/cpu/start.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/start.c b/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
index 961873d..264420d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/start.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static noinline __noreturn void __start(unsigned long membase,
 
 	/*
 	 * Maximum malloc space is the Kconfig value if given
-	 * or 64MB.
+	 * or 1GB.
 	 */
 	if (MALLOC_SIZE > 0) {
 		malloc_start = malloc_end - MALLOC_SIZE;
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ static noinline __noreturn void __start(unsigned long membase,
 			malloc_start = membase;
 	} else {
 		malloc_start = malloc_end - (malloc_end - membase) / 2;
-		if (malloc_end - malloc_start > SZ_64M)
-			malloc_start = malloc_end - SZ_64M;
+		if (malloc_end - malloc_start > SZ_1G)
+			malloc_start = malloc_end - SZ_1G;
 	}
 
 	mem_malloc_init((void *)malloc_start, (void *)malloc_end - 1);
-- 
2.0.1




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