spl: Drop bd_info in the data section

This uses up space in the SPL binary but it always starts as zero. Also
some boards cannot support data in TPL (e.g. Intel Apollo Lake).

Use malloc() to allocate this structure instead, by moving the init a
little later, after malloc() is inited. Make this function optional since
it pulls in malloc().

This reduces the TPL binary size on coral by about 64 bytes

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-layerscape/spl.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-layerscape/spl.c
index 7772433..215ed97 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-layerscape/spl.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/fsl-layerscape/spl.c
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ u32 spl_boot_device(void)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
 
+/* Define board data structure */
+static struct bd_info bdata __attribute__ ((section(".data")));
+
 void spl_board_init(void)
 {
 #if defined(CONFIG_NXP_ESBC) && defined(CONFIG_FSL_LSCH2)
@@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ void board_init_f(ulong dummy)
        get_clocks();
 
        preloader_console_init();
-       spl_set_bd();
+       gd->bd = &bdata;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYS_I2C
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT

diff --git a/common/spl/Kconfig b/common/spl/Kconfig
index 6d980be..6b01867 100644 (file)
--- a/common/spl/Kconfig
+++ b/common/spl/Kconfig
@@ -113,6 +113,15 @@ config SPL_FSL_PBL
          Create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format concatenated with
          u-boot binary.
 
+config SPL_ALLOC_BD
+       bool "Allocate memory for bd_info"
+       default y if X86 || SANDBOX
+       help
+         Some boards don't allocate space for this in their board_init_f()
+         code. In this case U-Boot can allocate space for gd->bd in the
+         standard SPL flow (board_init_r()). Enable this option to support
+         this feature.
+
 endmenu
 
 config HANDOFF

diff --git a/common/spl/spl.c b/common/spl/spl.c
index 63c48fb..835c53d 100644 (file)
--- a/common/spl/spl.c
+++ b/common/spl/spl.c
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ binman_sym_declare(ulong, spl, image_pos);
 binman_sym_declare(ulong, spl, size);
 #endif
 
-/* Define board data structure */
-static struct bd_info bdata __attribute__ ((section(".data")));
-
 /*
  * Board-specific Platform code can reimplement show_boot_progress () if needed
  */
@@ -443,14 +440,19 @@ static int spl_common_init(bool setup_malloc)
        return 0;
 }
 
-void spl_set_bd(void)
+int spl_alloc_bd(void)
 {
        /*
         * NOTE: On some platforms (e.g. x86) bdata may be in flash and not
         * writeable.
         */
-       if (!gd->bd)
-               gd->bd = &bdata;
+       if (!gd->bd) {
+               gd->bd = malloc(sizeof(*gd->bd));
+               if (!gd->bd)
+                       return -ENOMEM;
+       }
+
+       return 0;
 }
 
 int spl_early_init(void)
@@ -600,8 +602,6 @@ void board_init_r(gd_t *dummy1, ulong dummy2)
 
        debug(">>" SPL_TPL_PROMPT "board_init_r()\n");
 
-       spl_set_bd();
-
 #if defined(CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START)
        mem_malloc_init(CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START,
                        CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE);
@@ -611,6 +611,10 @@ void board_init_r(gd_t *dummy1, ulong dummy2)
                if (spl_init())
                        hang();
        }
+       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPL_ALLOC_BD) && spl_alloc_bd()) {
+               puts("Cannot alloc bd\n");
+               hang();
+       }
 #if !defined(CONFIG_PPC) && !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_MX6)
        /*
         * timer_init() does not exist on PPC systems. The timer is initialized

diff --git a/include/spl.h b/include/spl.h
index 374a295..a764878 100644 (file)
--- a/include/spl.h
+++ b/include/spl.h
@@ -285,7 +285,15 @@ u32 spl_mmc_boot_mode(const u32 boot_device);
  * If not overridden, it is weakly defined in common/spl/spl_mmc.c.
  */
 int spl_mmc_boot_partition(const u32 boot_device);
-void spl_set_bd(void);
+
+/**
+ * spl_alloc_bd() - Allocate space for bd_info
+ *
+ * This sets up the gd->bd pointer by allocating memory for it
+ *
+ * @return 0 if OK, -ENOMEM if out of memory
+ */
+int spl_alloc_bd(void);
 
 /**
  * spl_set_header_raw_uboot() - Set up a standard SPL image structure