From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] nand: fix buffer alignment in new verification feature
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:20:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55414B0A.2060603@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1429023540-17709-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
On 04/14/2015 08:59 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>
> On systems with caches enabled, NAND I/O may need to flush/invalidate
> the cache during read/write operations. For this to work correctly, all
> buffers must be cache-aligned. Fix nand_verify*() to allocate aligned
> buffers.
>
> This prevents cache alignment warnings from being spewed when using
> U-Boot to write an updated version of itself to flash on NVIDIA Tegra
> Seaboard (after perturbation of stack/data layout in current
> u-boot-dm/next branch).
>
> I have validatd (executed) nand_verify(), but I don't think I've executed
> nand_verify_page_oob(); testing of that would be useful.
>
> Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
> Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
> Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> Fixes: 59b5a2ad83df ("nand: Add verification functions")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> ---
> v2: Use memalign() rather than ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER() so that the
> buffer is allocated from the heap not on the stack, to reduce stack
> usage.
Scott, does this version look good?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-14 14:59 [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] nand: fix buffer alignment in new verification feature Stephen Warren
2015-04-14 22:45 ` Simon Glass
2015-04-29 21:20 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2015-04-29 23:23 ` Scott Wood
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