[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 01/11] arm: dma_alloc_coherent: malloc() -> memalign()

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Kuo-Jung,

On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:51:43 +0800, Kuo-Jung Su <dantesu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From: Kuo-Jung Su <dantesu at faraday-tech.com>
> 
> Even though the MMU/D-cache is off, some DMA engines still
> expect strict address alignment.
> 
> For example, the incoming Faraday FTMAC110 & FTGMAC100 ethernet
> controllers expect the tx/rx descriptors should always be aligned
> to 16-bytes boundary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kuo-Jung Su <dantesu at faraday-tech.com>
> CC: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>
> ---
> Changes for v6, v7:
>    - Nothing updates
> 
> Changes for v5:
>    - Initial commit, which is separated from
>      "arm: add MMU/D-Cache support for Faraday cores"
> 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> index 009863b..55a4e26 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ enum dma_data_direction {
> 
>  static void *dma_alloc_coherent(size_t len, unsigned long *handle)
>  {
> -	*handle = (unsigned long)malloc(len);
> +	*handle = (unsigned long)memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, len);
>  	return (void *)*handle;
>  }
> 
> --
> 1.7.9.5
> 

Applied to u-boot-arm/master, thanks!

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.