[coreboot] memset called to somewhere high on the stack (uncached)

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:21:57PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> I'm seeing code reads to memset() in coreboot_ram interleaved with byte
> writes to somewhere high on the stack (_estack -0x1fC).  This is a k8.
> 
> I can't find the place during the RAM stage when we are calling memset with
> caches disabled.  Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Probably not related, but I found the code at
src/arch/i386/init/crt0.S.lb:
        movl    %ebp, %esi
        /* FIXME: look for a proper place for the stack */
        movl    $0x4000000, %esp
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        pushl %esi
        pushl $str_coreboot_ram_name
        call cbfs_and_run_core

to be problematic on my epia-cn back when I was running timing tests.
The stack was set to 0x4000000, but that memory wasn't cached.  It
caused a really long delay - doubly so when lzma compression was used.

-Kevin