[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 RESEND] nand: fix buffer alignment in new verification feature

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed May 6 18:01:35 CEST 2015


From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

On systems with caches enabled, NAND I/O may need to flush/invalidate
the cache during read/write operations. For this to work correctly, all
buffers must be cache-aligned. Fix nand_verify*() to allocate aligned
buffers.

This prevents cache alignment warnings from being spewed when using
U-Boot to write an updated version of itself to flash on NVIDIA Tegra
Seaboard (after perturbation of stack/data layout in current
u-boot-dm/next branch).

I have validatd (executed) nand_verify(), but I don't think I've executed
nand_verify_page_oob(); testing of that would be useful.

Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
Fixes: 59b5a2ad83df ("nand: Add verification functions")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
---
Resending to Tom for direct application, including reviewed-/acked-by tags
from others.

As an aside, I think this patch demonstrates why new features shouldn't be
merged just a couple weeks before the release; there's not enough time to
detect regressions and patch them. The merge window is for new features.

v2: Use memalign() rather than ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER() so that the
buffer is allocated from the heap not on the stack, to reduce stack
usage.

 drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
index 12dd26a33fac..ee2c24df3b85 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_util.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ int nand_verify_page_oob(nand_info_t *nand, struct mtd_oob_ops *ops, loff_t ofs)
 
 	memcpy(&vops, ops, sizeof(vops));
 
-	vops.datbuf = malloc(verlen);
+	vops.datbuf = memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, verlen);
 
 	if (!vops.datbuf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ int nand_verify(nand_info_t *nand, loff_t ofs, size_t len, u_char *buf)
 	int rval = 0;
 	size_t verofs;
 	size_t verlen = nand->writesize;
-	uint8_t *verbuf = malloc(verlen);
+	uint8_t *verbuf = memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, verlen);
 
 	if (!verbuf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.9.1



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