[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 13/21] efi_loader: make pool allocations cacheline aligned

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 11:21:39 UTC 2017


This avoids printf() spam about file reads (such as loading an image)
into unaligned buffers (and the associated memcpy()).  And generally
seems like a good idea.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
---
 lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
index 9e079f1fa3..1f0b9d0449 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void *efi_bounce_buffer;
  */
 struct efi_pool_allocation {
 	u64 num_pages;
-	char data[];
+	char data[] __attribute__((aligned(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN)));
 };
 
 /*
@@ -356,7 +356,8 @@ efi_status_t efi_allocate_pool(int pool_type, unsigned long size,
 {
 	efi_status_t r;
 	efi_physical_addr_t t;
-	u64 num_pages = (size + sizeof(u64) + EFI_PAGE_MASK) >> EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
+	u64 num_pages = (size + sizeof(struct efi_pool_allocation) +
+			 EFI_PAGE_MASK) >> EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
 
 	if (size == 0) {
 		*buffer = NULL;
-- 
2.13.5



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