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    fdt: Fix bug in size calculation in fdt_resize() with initrd use · 3840ebfa
    Feng Wang authored
    
    
    Original bug description from Feng (fdt_resize() bug caused "WARNING:
    could not set linux, initrd-start FDT_ERR_NOSPACE."):
    
    What I got is an error: "WARNING: could not set linux,initrd-start
    FDT_ERR_NOSPACE." after loading Device Tree blob. This in turn caused
    linux to miss init part.
    
    After some digging, I found out the reason for this error, it is caused
    by fdt_resize().
    
    FDT blob got resized after filling in all board specific information of
    PowerPC. (in boot_body_linux()). It reduced blob size with only extra
    space for two fdt_reserve_entry, one for fdt itself, and one for initrd.
    Then it's aligned to a 0x1000 page boundary. However, later in
    fdt_initrd(), it could add two more properties, initrd-start AND
    initrd-end, each one needs at least two fdt_reserve_entry sizes done by
    _fdt_add_property() (name and value). Thus, the two fdt_reserve_entry
    extra space is not sufficient.
    
    So for some specific fdt size which is just under the page boundary
    after resizing, this will cause an error of FDT_ERR_NOSPACE in
    fdt_initrd() when setting those two properties, and failed to pass
    initrd information to linux.
    
    My fix is in fdt_resize(), leave at least 4 fdt_reserve_entry for
    initrd. So instead of 2*sizeof(struct fdt_reserve_entry) for
    actual_totalsize, use 5*sizeof(struc fdt_reserve_entry).
    
    Stefan: I got this same error on katmai, when trying to boot with
    initrd (run flash_self). This patch fixes this issue.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFeng Wang <fwang02@harris.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarStefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
    Cc: Jerry Van Baren <gvb.uboot@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarGerald Van Baren <vanbaren@cideas.com>
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