Hi Jonas,

On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 at 17:06, Jonas Karlman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On 8/8/2026 12:00 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Jonas,
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 at 15:41, Jonas Karlman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Simon,
> >>
> >> On 8/7/2026 10:40 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>> Hi Jonas,
> >>>
> >>> On 2026-08-07T09:04:31, Jonas Karlman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> rockchip: px30: Fix TPL_STACK overflow into BootROM reserved region
> >>>>
> >>>> The PX30/RK3326 has 16 KiB SRAM at [0xff0e0000, 0xff0e4000), with the
> >>>> initial 4 KiB at [0xff0e0000, 0xff0e1000) reserved for BootROM at boot.
> >>>>
> >>>> SRAM addressing only seem to use 14 bits, meaning that reading from
> >>>> 0xff0e4000+ wraps around and instad reads back data at 0xff0e0000+.
> >>>
> >>> Typos: 'seem' -> 'seems', 'instad' -> 'instead' and 'possible looks'
> >>> below -> 'possibly looks'.
> >>
> >> Thanks, will update in a v2.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Using a TPL_STACK at 0xff0e4ff0 (16-bytes aligned) means TPL use BootROM
> >>>> reserved region for its global data, malloc area and runtime stack.
> >>>>
> >>>> TPL on PX30/RK3326 does not have any use for the malloc area and the
> >>>> generated GD_SIZE is typically around 304 bytes.
> >>>>
> >>>> Current memory layout possible looks something like:
> >>>>
> >>>>   [0xff0e0000, 0xff0e4000)          16 KiB   SRAM
> >>>>     [0xff0e0000, 0xff0e1000)         4 KiB   BROM area
> >>>>       [0xff0e09f0, 0xff0e0ff0)    1536 bytes  malloc area (unused)
> >>>>       [0xff0e08c0, 0xff0e09f0)     304 bytes  global data
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>> arch/arm/mach-rockchip/px30/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> >>>>  common/spl/Kconfig.tpl              | 2 +-
> >>>>  tools/rkcommon.c                    | 2 +-
> >>>>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>>> diff --git a/common/spl/Kconfig.tpl b/common/spl/Kconfig.tpl
> >>>> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ config TPL_MAX_SIZE
> >>>> -     default 0x2800 if ROCKCHIP_PX30
> >>>> +     default 0x2c00 if ROCKCHIP_PX30
> >>>
> >>> Just to check, the layout shows [0xff0e3c00, 0xff0e3ed0) as pure
> >>> stack, but BSS (e.g. dram_info in sdram_px30.c) sits after
> >>> __image_copy_end and is not counted by the TPL_MAX_SIZE assert in
> >>> u-boot-tpl-v8.lds, so with an image close to 11 KiB the real stack
> >>> headroom is a bit less than 720 bytes.
> >>
> >> You are correct, current BSS is 72 bytes, will update the commit message
> >> to mention that the 720 bytes must fit both BSS and the stack in a v2.
> >>
> >> What is interesting is that global data is so large, especially when in
> >> this case nothing here is really using global data. We could save 16
> >> bytes by fully disable CONFIG_TPL_SYS_MALLOC_F, but that was too
> >> intrusive to be part of this fix.
> >
> > Well we have DRAM in there now. Actually now that Ilas' series is in,
> > we could take a look at trimming and aligning things - some things are
> > long which could be int, which matters on arm64.
>
> The px30/rk3326 boards do use CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS=1 or 2, so dram
> should at least be limited somewhat.
>
> I think there are some DM related fields that could be excluded to save
> little bit more space. With below diff the GD_SIZE is down to 240 bytes,
> 16 for TPL_SYS_MALLOC_F and remaining 48 due to the DM related fields.
> Not sure this is safe, but the odroid-go2_defconfig could be built.
>
> I do not think the global data size is really a big issue for this
> board, but rk3036 only have 4 KiB that need to fit SPL (2716b),
> BSS (0b), global data (160b) and stack. SPL image is down to 2716 bytes
> after upcoming TPL refactoring at [1] (tpl branch).
>
> diff --git a/configs/odroid-go2_defconfig b/configs/odroid-go2_defconfig
> index dfdea66cd70c..c5fd6514010c 100644
> --- a/configs/odroid-go2_defconfig
> +++ b/configs/odroid-go2_defconfig
> @@ -118,3 +118,4 @@ CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_ROCKUSB=y
>  CONFIG_TPL_TINY_MEMSET=y
>  CONFIG_LZO=y
>  CONFIG_ERRNO_STR=y
> +# CONFIG_TPL_SYS_MALLOC_F is not set
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/global_data.h 
> b/include/asm-generic/global_data.h
> index fd116b0cebf2..886c12900ddb 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/global_data.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/global_data.h
> @@ -174,10 +174,12 @@ struct global_data {
>          * @arch: architecture-specific data
>          */
>         struct arch_global_data arch;
> +#if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(DM)
>         /**
>          * @dmtag_list: List of DM tags
>          */
>         struct list_head dmtag_list;
> +#endif
>         /**
>          * @timebase_h: high 32 bits of timer
>          */
> @@ -228,7 +230,7 @@ struct global_data {
>          */
>         long precon_buf_idx;
>  #endif
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DM
> +#if CONFIG_IS_ENABLED(DM)
>         /**
>          * @dm_root: root instance for Driver Model
>          */

Yes please, that's a huge improvement!

>
> [1] 
> https://git.u-boot-project.org/u-boot/contributors/kwiboo/u-boot/-/commit/8c8b98a29aa35880b93bbacce8daf68edb537eca
>
> Regards,
> Jonas
>
> >
> > I also did some work on struct board_f which is another way to reduce
> > space, if we can find more things which are only needed in early board
> > start-up. I suppose we could even expand that to include the
> > board_init_r() calls.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon
>

Regards,
Simon

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