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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] nand: fix buffer alignment in new verification feature
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:23:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430349804.16357.116.camel@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55414B0A.2060603@wwwdotorg.org>

On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 15:20 -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 04/14/2015 08:59 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> >
> > On systems with caches enabled, NAND I/O may need to flush/invalidate
> > the cache during read/write operations. For this to work correctly, all
> > buffers must be cache-aligned. Fix nand_verify*() to allocate aligned
> > buffers.
> >
> > This prevents cache alignment warnings from being spewed when using
> > U-Boot to write an updated version of itself to flash on NVIDIA Tegra
> > Seaboard (after perturbation of stack/data layout in current
> > u-boot-dm/next branch).
> >
> > I have validatd (executed) nand_verify(), but I don't think I've executed
> > nand_verify_page_oob(); testing of that would be useful.
> >
> > Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
> > Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
> > Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> > Fixes: 59b5a2ad83df ("nand: Add verification functions")
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Use memalign() rather than ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER() so that the
> > buffer is allocated from the heap not on the stack, to reduce stack
> > usage.
> 
> Scott, does this version look good?

Yes.  I'll apply it the next time I look at U-Boot patches, or if you
want it faster:

Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>

-Scott

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-14 14:59 [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] nand: fix buffer alignment in new verification feature Stephen Warren
2015-04-14 22:45 ` Simon Glass
2015-04-29 21:20 ` Stephen Warren
2015-04-29 23:23   ` Scott Wood [this message]

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