[U-Boot] [PATCH] mmc:dcache: Cache line size aligned internal MMC buffers

Mike Frysinger
2011-08-23T20:37:03Z

On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 16:27:26 Anton Staaf wrote:
> So then, to guide our efforts, what is a more suitable solution?
> Would you prefer we stick with the existing path of calling memalign
> and passing it the cache size by directly calling
> get_dcache_line_size? Or would you prefer something more like a
> dma_buffer_malloc function that allocates on the heap a cache line
> size aligned buffer and returns it?

memalign() is simply a malloc() with offset fudging, so dma_buffer_malloc() is
the way to go imo. anything that involves end code having to figure out how
to align things itself is asking for pain.
-mike
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