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

Tom Rini tom.rini at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 19:34:03 CEST 2012


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Ilya Yanok
<ilya.yanok at cogentembedded.com> wrote:
> 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?

Albert?

-- 
Tom


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