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From: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mtest: Fix end address of increment/decrement test
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:00:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274392850.18152.253.camel@petert> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100520203251.D1BA6CCF026@gemini.denx.de>

Hi Wolfgang,

> > As far as the output, my vote would be to align the end address to a
> > 32-bit address and add 3.  eg assuming a starting address of 1000 and
> > ending addresses of:
> > 0x1ffc - output: Testing 00001000 ... 00001fff
> > 0x1ffd - output: Testing 00001000 ... 00001fff
> > 0x1ffe - output: Testing 00001000 ... 00001fff
> > 0x1fff - output: Testing 00001000 ... 00001fff
> > 0x2000 - output: Testing 00001000 ... 00002003
> > 0x2001 - output: Testing 00001000 ... 00002003
> 
> No, please do not implement such automatic alignment; it may be useful
> for some cases, but it may as well hurt, for example if you
> intentionally want to run mtest with misalignment, like giving both
> odd start and end addresses.

I didn't express it well, but what I was getting at was that the
"Testing X .. Y" would ideally state exactly what is being tested.
Unaligned addresses would still be allowed.  I think right now the end
address is always automatically aligned to the same alignment as the
start address though, so the current output is very misleading.

eg:
mw.l 0x1000 0x12345678 0x1000
mtest 0x1003 0x1ffc 1 1
Testing 00001003 ... 00001ffc:
...
md 0x1000 10; md 0x1ff0 10
00001000: 12345600 00000000 00000000 00000000    .4V.............
00001010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000    ................
00001020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000    ................
00001030: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000    ................
00001ff0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000078    ...............x
00002000: 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678    .4Vx.4Vx.4Vx.4Vx
00002010: 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678    .4Vx.4Vx.4Vx.4Vx
00002020: 12345678 12345678 12345678 12345678    .4Vx.4Vx.4Vx.4Vx

You can see the starting alignment was respected, but the ending
alignment was truncated to be 32-bit aligned to the starting address.
In the above example, I think it would be nice to see "Testing
00001003 ... 00001ffe".  Or some other way such that the user knows that
their input wasn't executed to a T; their end address was truncated.

Best,
Peter

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-20 17:08 [U-Boot] [PATCH] mtest: Fix end address of increment/decrement test Peter Tyser
2010-05-20 18:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-20 19:07   ` Peter Tyser
2010-05-20 19:44     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-20 20:11       ` Peter Tyser
2010-05-20 20:32         ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-20 22:00           ` Peter Tyser [this message]
2010-05-20 22:07             ` Wolfgang Denk

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