The hush shell dynamically allocates (and re-allocates) memory for the
argument strings in the "char *argv[]" argument vector passed to
commands. Any code that modifies these pointers will cause serious
corruption of the malloc data structures and crash U-Boot, so make
sure the compiler can check that no such modifications are being done
by changing the code into "char * const argv[]".
This modification is the result of debugging a strange crash caused
after adding a new command, which used the following argument
processing code which has been working perfectly fine in all Unix
systems since version 6 - but not so in U-Boot:
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
/* ====> */ while (*++*argv) {
switch (**argv) {
case 'd':
debug++;
break;
...
default:
usage ();
}
}
}
...
}
The line marked "====>" will corrupt the malloc data structures and
usually cause U-Boot to crash when the next command gets executed by
the shell. With the modification, the compiler will prevent this with
an
error: increment of read-only location '*argv'
N.B.: The code above can be trivially rewritten like this:
while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
char *arg = *argv;
while (*++arg) {
switch (*arg) {
...
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
As discussed on the list, move "arch/ppc" to "arch/powerpc" to
better match the Linux directory structure.
Please note that this patch also changes the "ppc" target in
MAKEALL to "powerpc" to match this new infrastructure. But "ppc"
is kept as an alias for now, to not break compatibility with
scripts using this name.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Acked-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Add a disable sub-command to the cpu command that allows for disabling
cores in multicore processors. This can be useful for systems that are
using multicore chips but aren't utilizing all the cores as a way to
reduce power and possibly improve performance.
Also updated an added missing copyright.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
* Use CONFIG_MP instead of CONFIG_NUM_CPUS to match 85xx
* Introduce determine_mp_bootpg() helper. We'll need this to address a
bug introduced in v2009.03 with 86xx MP booting. We have to make sure
to reserve the region of memory used for the MP bootpg() so other
u-boot code doesn't use it.
* Added dummy versions of cpu_reset(), cpu_status() & cpu_release() to
allow cmd_mp.c to build and work. In the future we should look at
implementing all these functions. This could be common w/85xx if we
use spin tables on 86xx.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
We put the bootpg for the secondary cpus into memory and use
BPTR to get to it. This is a step towards converting to the
ePAPR boot methodology. Also, the code is written to
deal properly with more than 4GB of RAM.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
Kumar Gala
Wolfgang Denk
Stefan Roese
Peter Tyser
Becky Bruce