[U-Boot] [PATCH] gpt: Use cache aligned buffers for gpt_h and gpt_e

[Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:28:10 +0200
Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de> wrote:

> Before this patch one could receive following errors when executing
> "gpt write" command on machine with cache enabled:
> 
> display5 factory > gpt write mmc ${mmcdev} ${partitions}
> Writing GPT:
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4ef8f7f0, 4ef8f9f0]
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4ef8f9f8, 4ef939f8]
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4ef8f9f8, 4ef939f8]
> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4ef8f7f0, 4ef8f9f0]
> success!
> 
> To alleviate this problem - the calloc()s have been replaced with
> malloc_cache_aligned() and memset().
> 
> After those changes the buffers are properly aligned (with both start
> address and size) to SoC cache line.

Any feedback?

This patch seems like a good candidate for v2017.11 (as a fix to gpt
command)

Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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