From: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] spi: fix mxs_spi_slave structure allocation to clear memory
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:59:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5031EE62.2090001@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345227311-11433-2-git-send-email-matt@genesi-usa.com>
On 17/08/2012 20:15, Matt Sealey wrote:
> Use calloc() instead of malloc() to allocate the mxs_spi_slave structure.
> Clearing the memory is necessary since most of the time this gets done
> super early in boot, but on warm reboots, and when SPI probing is done
> long after the init stages it could actually pick up previously used memory,
> and things like the chipselect polarity and other data end up being filled
> with trash data if not explicitly set by the board files.
>
> This solves a semi-random, almost unreproducable error whereby SPI devices
> act very, very strangly on boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
> ---
> drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c b/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
> index a037c13..5fa7f2b 100644
> --- a/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ struct spi_slave *spi_setup_slave(unsigned int bus, unsigned int cs,
> return NULL;
> }
>
> - mxs_slave = malloc(sizeof(struct mxs_spi_slave));
> + mxs_slave = calloc(sizeof(struct mxs_spi_slave), 1);
> if (!mxs_slave)
> return NULL;
>
>
Applied to u-boot-imx, thanks.
Best regards,
Stefano Babic
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-17 18:15 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] spi: fix mxc_spi_slave structure allocation to clear memory Matt Sealey
2012-08-17 18:15 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] spi: fix mxs_spi_slave " Matt Sealey
2012-08-18 9:05 ` stefano babic
2012-08-20 7:59 ` Stefano Babic [this message]
2012-08-18 9:05 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] spi: fix mxc_spi_slave " stefano babic
2012-08-20 7:59 ` Stefano Babic
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