[U-Boot] [PATCH] fat: Use cache aligned buffers for fat_opendir

Neil Armstrong narmstrong at baylibre.com
Fri Nov 24 08:54:41 UTC 2017


Before this patch one could receive following errors when executing "fatls"
command on machine with cache enabled (ex i.MX6Q) :

=> fatls mmc 0:1
CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4f59dfc8, 4f59e7c8]
CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4f59dfc8, 4f59e7c8]
ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - start address is not aligned - 0x4f59dfc8
ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - stop address is not aligned - 0x4f59e7c8
CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4f59dfc8, 4f59e7c8]
CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4f59dfc8, 4f59e7c8]
ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - start address is not aligned - 0x4f59dfc8
ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - stop address is not aligned - 0x4f59e7c8

To alleviate this problem - the calloc()s have been replaced with
malloc_cache_aligned() and memset().

After those changes the buffers are properly aligned (with both start
address and size) to SoC cache line.

Fixes: 09fa964bba80 ("fs/fat: Fix 'CACHE: Misaligned operation at range' warnings")
Suggested-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong at baylibre.com>
---
 fs/fat/fat.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fat/fat.c b/fs/fat/fat.c
index 7fe7843..d16883f 100644
--- a/fs/fat/fat.c
+++ b/fs/fat/fat.c
@@ -1149,11 +1149,13 @@ typedef struct {
 
 int fat_opendir(const char *filename, struct fs_dir_stream **dirsp)
 {
-	fat_dir *dir = calloc(1, sizeof(*dir));
+	fat_dir *dir;
 	int ret;
 
+	dir = malloc_cache_aligned(sizeof(*dir));
 	if (!dir)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	memset(dir, 0, sizeof(*dir));
 
 	ret = fat_itr_root(&dir->itr, &dir->fsdata);
 	if (ret)
-- 
2.7.4



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