Re: [coreboot] PAYLOAD_SEGMENT_BSS not getting cleared in selfboot.c

[Aaron Durbin]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Aaron Durbin  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a historical question regarding the current selfboot.c
> implementation surrounding PAYLOAD_SEGMENT_BSS.
>
> Documentation/cbfs.txt indicates that PAYLOAD_SEGMENT_BSS should be cleared:
>
> "PAYLOAD_SEGMENT_BSS    0x20535342   The memory speicfied by the
> segment should be zeroed"
>
> And we have code which looks for partial segments backed by file
> contents that zeros the memory that the file contents don't cover.
>
> But I don't see anywhere where we actually honor PAYLOAD_SEGMENT_BSS
> by zero'ing the memory covered by it.
>
> Is this an oversight or is it explicitly not done, but no reasoning is
> documented?
>
> Given the current semantics I think this memory region should be cleared.

Patch pushed: https://review.coreboot.org/15603
> -Aaron