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File 0001-ieee1275-Drop-HEAP_MAX_ADDR-and-HEAP_MIN_SIZE-consta.patch of Package grub2 (Revision 4ff1c76f520086156f18bcf0ebb33acb)

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From 41589d37934c7e4c464a584939de0137af7a181b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:14:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 01/23] ieee1275: Drop HEAP_MAX_ADDR and HEAP_MIN_SIZE
 constants

The HEAP_MAX_ADDR is confusing. Currently it is set to 32MB, except on
ieee1275 on x86, where it is 64MB.

There is a comment which purports to explain it:

/* If possible, we will avoid claiming heap above this address, because it
     seems to cause relocation problems with OSes that link at 4 MiB */

This doesn't make a lot of sense when the constants are well above 4MB
already. It was not always this way. Prior to commit 7b5d0fe4440c
(Increase heap limit) in 2010, HEAP_MAX_SIZE and HEAP_MAX_ADDR were
indeed 4MB. However, when the constants were increased the comment was
left unchanged.

It's been over a decade. It doesn't seem like we have problems with
claims over 4MB on powerpc or x86 ieee1275. The SPARC does things
completely differently and never used the constant.

Drop the constant and the check.

The only use of HEAP_MIN_SIZE was to potentially override the
HEAP_MAX_ADDR check. It is now unused. Remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
---
 grub-core/kern/ieee1275/init.c | 17 -----------------
 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/grub-core/kern/ieee1275/init.c b/grub-core/kern/ieee1275/init.c
index 1187492ae..c15d40e55 100644
--- a/grub-core/kern/ieee1275/init.c
+++ b/grub-core/kern/ieee1275/init.c
@@ -45,9 +45,6 @@
 #include <grub/machine/kernel.h>
 #endif
 
-/* The minimal heap size we can live with. */
-#define HEAP_MIN_SIZE		(unsigned long) (2 * 1024 * 1024)
-
 /* The maximum heap size we're going to claim */
 #ifdef __i386__
 #define HEAP_MAX_SIZE		(unsigned long) (64 * 1024 * 1024)
@@ -55,14 +52,6 @@
 #define HEAP_MAX_SIZE		(unsigned long) (32 * 1024 * 1024)
 #endif
 
-/* If possible, we will avoid claiming heap above this address, because it
-   seems to cause relocation problems with OSes that link at 4 MiB */
-#ifdef __i386__
-#define HEAP_MAX_ADDR		(unsigned long) (64 * 1024 * 1024)
-#else
-#define HEAP_MAX_ADDR		(unsigned long) (32 * 1024 * 1024)
-#endif
-
 extern char _start[];
 extern char _end[];
 
@@ -184,12 +173,6 @@ heap_init (grub_uint64_t addr, grub_uint64_t len, grub_memory_type_t type,
   if (*total + len > HEAP_MAX_SIZE)
     len = HEAP_MAX_SIZE - *total;
 
-  /* Avoid claiming anything above HEAP_MAX_ADDR, if possible. */
-  if ((addr < HEAP_MAX_ADDR) &&				/* if it's too late, don't bother */
-      (addr + len > HEAP_MAX_ADDR) &&				/* if it wasn't available anyway, don't bother */
-      (*total + (HEAP_MAX_ADDR - addr) > HEAP_MIN_SIZE))	/* only limit ourselves when we can afford to */
-     len = HEAP_MAX_ADDR - addr;
-
   /* In theory, firmware should already prevent this from happening by not
      listing our own image in /memory/available.  The check below is intended
      as a safeguard in case that doesn't happen.  However, it doesn't protect
-- 
2.31.1

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