Hello,
On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 01:25:50PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 07:24:25PM +0100, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 08:54:55AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > > > It is reported that in some configurations it is not possible to boot
> > > > because u-boot runs out of lmbs.
> > > >
> > > > commit 06d514d77c ("lmb: consider EFI memory map") increases lmb usage,
> > > > hence is likely the cause of the lmb overflow.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 06d514d77c ("lmb: consider EFI memory map")
> > > > Link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207562
> > > > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msucha...@suse.de>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolc...@toradex.com>
> >
> > > I plan to pick up
> > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20230125230823.1567778-1-tr...@konsulko.com/
> > > as the alternative fix for this issue and would suggest that any distro
> > > hitting the problem on v2023.01 apply the above instead of increasing
> > > the limit.
> >
> > Tom, my understanding is that you plan to merge this or an equivalent
> > change, correct? Otherwise I would need to send some more patches to
> > update a few board defconfig that are affected by this specific issue.
>
> Yes, I was hoping to push the equivalent of this patch a few hours ago,
> along with the revert. Then I noticed the test in test/lib/lmb.c doesn't
> scale past 8, and I just now figured out what that should look like
> instead, I believe.
reportedly neither fixes the problem in all cases, and raising
CONFIG_LMB_RESERVED_REGIONS is required.
Looks like the mechanism to add regions above the default number does
not work as intended.
The test is to boot rPi 4 from USB directly with recent firmware.
Thanks
Michal
