[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: support for cache coherent allocations

Ilya Yanok ilya.yanok at cogentembedded.com
Thu Jun 14 17:13:50 CEST 2012


Hi All,

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Ilya Yanok
<ilya.yanok at cogentembedded.com>wrote:

> This is a draft implementation of cache coherent memory allocator.
> This simple implementation just reserves memory area below malloc
> space and leave it uncached even if data cache is enabled.
> Allocations are even simpler: code just verifies that we have
> enough space and increments the offset counter. No deallocations
> supported for now. In future versions we could probably use
> dlmalloc allocator to get space out of coherent pool.
>

Any comments on this?

Regards, Ilya.


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