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Merge patch series "Relocate U-Boot in the last bank"
authorTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:39:29 +0000 (15:39 -0600)
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:13:25 +0000 (18:13 -0600)
Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> says:

There was a discussion recently on the mailing lists regarding our
management of memory above ram_top [0]. The tl;dr is that we have two problems.

The first one is that U-Boot always relocates to the top of the first available
bank unless there's special board code to sidestep that. The second is we don't
successfully deal with devices that can only do 32-bit DMA.

This patch series deals with the first problem by adding a Kconfig option
allowing platforms to relocate to the top of the last discovered bank.

It's worth noting that this is easily testable with QEMU

qemu-system-aarch64 -m 8192 -smp 2 -nographic -cpu cortex-a57 \
    -machine virt,secure=off \
    -bios u-boot.bin \
    -device virtio-rng-pci \
    -drive id=os,if=none,file="$image" \
    -device virtio-blk-device,drive=os \
    -object memory-backend-ram,id=ram0,size=4G \
    -object memory-backend-ram,id=ram1,size=4G \
    -numa node,memdev=ram0 \
    -numa node,memdev=ram1

# RELOC_ADDR_TOP not set
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
=> bdinfo
[...]
relocaddr   = 0x000000013f66c000
reloc off   = 0x000000013f66c000
[...]
lmb_dump_all:
 memory.count = 0x1
 memory[0] [0x40000000-0x23fffffff], 0x200000000 bytes, flags: none
 reserved.count = 0x2
 reserved[0] [0x13d507000-0x13d509fff], 0x3000 bytes, flags: no-notify, no-overwrite
reserved[1] [0x13d50aff0-0x23fffffff], 0x102af5010 bytes, flags: no-overwrite
devicetree  = board
[...]
TLB addr    = 0x000000013ffe0000
irq_sp      = 0x000000013e50aff0
sp start    = 0x000000013e50aff0
Early malloc usage: e88 / 2000
=>

# RELOC_ADDR_TOP enabled

=> bdinfo
[...]
relocaddr   = 0x000000023f66c000
reloc off   = 0x000000023f66c000
[...]
lmb_dump_all:
 memory.count = 0x1
 memory[0] [0x40000000-0x23fffffff], 0x200000000 bytes, flags: none
 reserved.count = 0x2
 reserved[0] [0x23d507000-0x23d509fff], 0x3000 bytes, flags: no-notify, no-overwrite
 reserved[1] [0x23d50aff0-0x23fffffff], 0x2af5010 bytes, flags: no-overwrite
devicetree  = board
[...]
TLB addr    = 0x000000023ffe0000
irq_sp      = 0x000000023e50aff0
sp start    = 0x000000023e50aff0
Early malloc usage: e88 / 2000
=>

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/CAC_iWjKFAzpj3B_MEW7-dnOrcAV-rfkhXXo8Bv0KgLNP2VJxRA@mail.gmail.com/

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260617074846.84362-1-ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org

Trivial merge