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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/8] mtd/nand/ubi: assortment of alignment fixes
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 16:35:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435872919.10531.1.camel@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201507020753.36195.marex@denx.de>

On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 07:53 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Thursday, July 02, 2015 at 01:04:52 AM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
> > From: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>
> > 
> > Various U-Boot adoptions/extensions to MTD/NAND/UBI did not take buffer
> > alignment into account which led to failures of the following form:
> > 
> > ERROR: v7_dcache_inval_range - start address is not aligned - 0x1f7f0108
> > ERROR: v7_dcache_inval_range - stop address is not aligned - 0x1f7f1108
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>
> 
> What about using ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER() and friends instead ? See
> include/common.h for their definition, this is what those functions are
> exactly for.

ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER() is for statically allocating an aligned buffer.  
Dynamically allocating an aligned buffer is exactly what memalign() is for.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-02 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-01 23:04 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/8] assortment of fixes/enhancements Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-01 23:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/8] fs/fs.c: read up to EOF when len would read past EOF Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-02  5:46   ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-02  6:01     ` Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-01 23:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/8] net: asix: fix operation without eeprom Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-02  5:50   ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-02  6:12     ` Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-02 18:39       ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-08  3:55   ` Joe Hershberger
2015-07-08  6:39     ` Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-01 23:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/8] generic-board: allow showing custom board info Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-03  3:27   ` Simon Glass
2015-07-01 23:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/8] logos: add Toradex logo Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-01 23:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/8] colibri_vf: remove spurious new line Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-02  5:52   ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-01 23:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/8] image-fdt.c: store returned error value Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-02  5:52   ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-03  3:21     ` Simon Glass
2015-07-01 23:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/8] mtd/nand/ubi: assortment of alignment fixes Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-02  5:53   ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-02 21:35     ` Scott Wood [this message]
2015-07-03 13:44       ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-06 21:25         ` Scott Wood
2015-07-06 21:45           ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-06 21:50             ` Scott Wood
2015-07-06 21:57               ` Marek Vasut
2015-07-01 23:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 8/8] tftp.c: fix CONFIG_TFTP_TSIZE for small files Marcel Ziswiler
2015-07-02  5:54   ` Marek Vasut

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