u-boot-brain/arch
Stephen Warren 0797f7f0b7 ARM: tegra: reserve unmapped RAM so EFI doesn't use it
Tegra U-Boot ensures that board_get_usable_ram_top() never returns a value
over 4GB, since some peripherals can't access such addresses. However, on
systems with more than 2GB of RAM, RAM bank 1 does describe this extra
RAM, so that Linux (or whatever OS) can use it, subject to DMA
limitations. Since board_get_usable_ram_top() points at the top of RAM
bank 0, the memory locations describes by RAM bank 1 are not mapped by
U-Boot's MMU configuration, and so cannot be used for anything.

For some completely inexplicable reason, U-Boot's EFI support ignores the
value returned by board_get_usable_ram_top(), and EFI memory allocation
routines will return values above U-Boot's RAM top. This causes U-Boot to
crash when it accesses that RAM, since it isn't mapped by the MMU. One
use-case where this happens is TFTP download of a file on Jetson TX1
(p2371-2180).

This change explicitly tells the EFI code that this extra RAM should not
be used, thus avoiding the crash.

A previous attempt to make EFI honor board_get_usable_ram_top() was
rejected. So, this patch will need to be replicated for any board that
implements board_get_usable_ram_top().

Fixes: aa909462d0 ("efi_loader: efi_allocate_pages is too restrictive")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2018-09-23 21:55:29 +02:00
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arc arch: types.h: factor out fixed width typedefs to int-ll64.h 2018-09-10 20:48:16 -04:00
arm ARM: tegra: reserve unmapped RAM so EFI doesn't use it 2018-09-23 21:55:29 +02:00
m68k m68k: ColdFire mcf5441x, add eSDHC support 2018-09-16 00:01:13 +02:00
microblaze arch: types.h: factor out fixed width typedefs to int-ll64.h 2018-09-10 20:48:16 -04:00
mips arch: types.h: factor out fixed width typedefs to int-ll64.h 2018-09-10 20:48:16 -04:00
nds32 arch: types.h: factor out fixed width typedefs to int-ll64.h 2018-09-10 20:48:16 -04:00
nios2 .gitignore: move *.dtb and *.dtb.S patterns to the top-level .gitignore 2018-06-18 14:43:12 -04:00
powerpc misc: Add MPC83xx serdes driver 2018-09-18 08:12:21 -06:00
riscv arch: types.h: factor out fixed width typedefs to int-ll64.h 2018-09-10 20:48:16 -04:00
sandbox test: Add tests for CPU uclass 2018-09-18 08:12:21 -06:00
sh sh: tmu: Zap get_tbclk and timer_read_counter 2018-09-15 03:19:07 +02:00
x86 efi_loader: simplify ifdefs 2018-09-23 21:55:29 +02:00
xtensa arch: types.h: factor out fixed width typedefs to int-ll64.h 2018-09-10 20:48:16 -04:00
.gitignore
Kconfig sandbox: Enable bitrev library build 2018-09-18 00:01:18 -06:00