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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] FAT: Properly align buffers to allow cache operations
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:36:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201204100036.07124.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333953903-26335-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de>

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*.
-mike
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10  4:36 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 [this message]
2012-04-10  5:00   ` Marek Vasut
2012-04-10 15:07     ` Eric Nelson
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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