From: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] FAT: Properly align buffers to allow cache operations
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:07:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F844CAE.1010502@boundarydevices.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201204100700.48644.marex@denx.de>
On 04/09/2012 10:00 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Mike Frysinger,
>
>> On Monday 09 April 2012 02:45:03 Marek Vasut wrote:
>>> @@ -765,9 +767,6 @@
>>>
>>> -__attribute__ ((__aligned__ (__alignof__ (dir_entry))))
>>> -__u8 do_fat_read_block[MAX_CLUSTSIZE];
>>> -
>>>
>>> @@ -788,6 +787,7 @@ do_fat_read (const char *filename, void *buffer,
>>>
>>> int rootdir_size = 0;
>>> int j;
>>>
>>> + uint8_t do_fat_read_block[MAX_CLUSTSIZE] __attribute__((aligned(32)));
>>
>> what's going on here exactly ? the old code had the advantage of being in
>> the bss and the linker taking care of the alignment. this new code has an
>> incorrectly hard-coded "32", and puts a 64KiB array onto the *stack*.
>
> This will be probably fixed in Eric's patch
>
Yep. I left it in bss space.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-10 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-09 6:45 [U-Boot] [PATCH] FAT: Properly align buffers to allow cache operations Marek Vasut
2012-04-09 8:20 ` Dirk Behme
2012-04-09 8:26 ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-09 10:28 ` Dirk Behme
2012-04-09 10:44 ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-09 13:35 ` Eric Nelson
2012-04-10 4:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-10 5:00 ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-10 15:07 ` Eric Nelson [this message]
2012-04-10 16:20 ` Dirk Behme
2012-04-10 20:34 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-04-10 23:13 ` Eric Nelson
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