Hi Isaac,
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 7:03 PM Isaac J. Manjarres
<isaacm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Patrick Daly <pdaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Certain SoCs need to support a large amount of reserved memory
> regions. For example, Qualcomm's SM8150 SoC requires that 20
> regions of memory be reserved for a variety of reasons (e.g.
> loading a peripheral subsystem's firmware image into a
> particular space).
>
> When adding more reserved memory regions to cater to different
> usecases, the remaining number of reserved memory regions--12
> to be exact--becomes too small. Thus, double the existing
> limit of reserved memory regions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Daly <pdaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Isaac J. Manjarres <isaacm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch!
> --- a/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/memblock.h>
>
> -#define MAX_RESERVED_REGIONS 32
> +#define MAX_RESERVED_REGIONS 64
> static struct reserved_mem reserved_mem[MAX_RESERVED_REGIONS];
> static int reserved_mem_count;
This increases the size of reserved_mem[] by 896 (32-bit), 1280 (32-bit LPAE),
or 1792 (64-bit) bytes. While some systems don't need reserved memory
regions at all, and may be RAM-limited.
Perhaps this array can be replaced by some dynamically increasing
structure?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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