[U-Boot] Cache alignment warnings on Tegra (ARM)

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at avionic-design.de
Tue Sep 18 22:04:43 CEST 2012


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:36:18PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Thierry Reding,
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Sure, but after you apply the bounce buffer, you can safely invalidate
> > > the whole cacheline, so align it up and be done with it.
> > 
> > That's what I proposed to do last time around but it was NAK'ed.
> 
> By who?

I think it was Simon Glass and Mike Frysinger. They NAK'ed it for very
valid reason, so I'm not complaining.

> > At the
> > time I didn't ensure that the buffer was actually big enough, which is
> > why people didn't like it (data on the stack after the DMA buffer might
> > be invalidated as well).
> 
> Correct, thus the bounce buffer.

I don't think we even need the bounce buffer. All that needs to be done
is guarantee that the buffers passed to the MMC driver are properly
aligned and sized.

Thierry
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