[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] net/designware: ensure device private data is DMA aligned.

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Sat Apr 19 15:52:20 CEST 2014


struct dw_eth_dev contains fields which are accessed via DMA, so make sure it
is aligned to a dma boundary. Without this I see:
    ERROR: v7_dcache_inval_range - start address is not aligned - 0x7fb677e0

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
---
 drivers/net/designware.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/designware.c b/drivers/net/designware.c
index 6ece479..1120f70 100644
--- a/drivers/net/designware.c
+++ b/drivers/net/designware.c
@@ -412,7 +412,8 @@ int designware_initialize(ulong base_addr, u32 interface)
 	 * Since the priv structure contains the descriptors which need a strict
 	 * buswidth alignment, memalign is used to allocate memory
 	 */
-	priv = (struct dw_eth_dev *) memalign(16, sizeof(struct dw_eth_dev));
+	priv = (struct dw_eth_dev *) memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN,
+					      sizeof(struct dw_eth_dev));
 	if (!priv) {
 		free(dev);
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.9.0



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