[U-Boot] [U-Boot RESEND v2 01/10] sf: allocate cache aligned buffers to copy from flash

[Jagan Teki]

On 17 August 2015 at 13:29, Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com> wrote:
> From: Ravi Babu <ravibabu at ti.com>
>
> Use memalign() with ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to allocate read buffers.
> This is required because, flash drivers may use DMA for read operations
> and may have to invalidate the buffer before read.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Babu <ravibabu at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com>

>  common/cmd_sf.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/cmd_sf.c b/common/cmd_sf.c
> index 3746e0d9644f..ac7f5dfb8181 100644
> --- a/common/cmd_sf.c
> +++ b/common/cmd_sf.c
> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static int spi_flash_update(struct spi_flash *flash, u32 offset,
>
>         if (end - buf >= 200)
>                 scale = (end - buf) / 100;
> -       cmp_buf = malloc(flash->sector_size);
> +       cmp_buf = memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, flash->sector_size);
>         if (cmp_buf) {
>                 ulong last_update = get_timer(0);
>
> @@ -484,12 +484,12 @@ static int do_spi_flash_test(int argc, char * const argv[])
>         if (*argv[2] == 0 || *endp != 0)
>                 return -1;
>
> -       vbuf = malloc(len);
> +       vbuf = memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, len);
>         if (!vbuf) {
>                 printf("Cannot allocate memory (%lu bytes)\n", len);
>                 return 1;
>         }
> -       buf = malloc(len);
> +       buf = memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, len);
>         if (!buf) {
>                 free(vbuf);
>                 printf("Cannot allocate memory (%lu bytes)\n", len);
> --
> 2.5.0
>

thanks!
-- 
Jagan | openedev.