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[v2,4/4] malloc: Enable SYS_MALLOC_RUNTIME_INIT by default in SPL

Message ID 20230808225320.310926-5-sean.anderson@seco.com
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Tom Rini
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Series [v2,1/4] common: Only mark malloc initialized after mem_malloc_init | expand

Commit Message

Sean Anderson Aug. 8, 2023, 10:53 p.m. UTC 
On boards with size restrictions, 1-2k can be a significant fraction of
the binary size. Add a new SPL version of SYS_MALLOC_RUNTIME_INIT and
enable it by default.

Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
---

(no changes since v1)

 Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

Comments

Simon Glass Aug. 9, 2023, 2:03 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 16:53, Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com> wrote:
>
> On boards with size restrictions, 1-2k can be a significant fraction of
> the binary size. Add a new SPL version of SYS_MALLOC_RUNTIME_INIT and
> enable it by default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
> ---
>
> (no changes since v1)
>
>  Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
index 4b32286b69d..3cb31a93464 100644
--- a/Kconfig
+++ b/Kconfig
@@ -381,6 +381,17 @@  config SYS_MALLOC_RUNTIME_INIT
          reduce the size of U-Boot by letting malloc's data reside in .bss
          instead of .data.
 
+config SPL_SYS_MALLOC_RUNTIME_INIT
+	bool "Initialize malloc's internal data at runtime in SPL"
+	default y
+	depends on SPL
+	help
+	 Initialize malloc's internal data structures at SPL runtime, rather
+	 than at compile-time. This is necessary if relocating the malloc arena
+	 from a smaller static memory to a large DDR memory. It can also reduce
+	 the size of U-Boot by letting malloc's data reside in .bss instead of
+	 .data.
+
 config TOOLS_DEBUG
 	bool "Enable debug information for tools"
 	help