[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v10, 03/10] sandbox: Align RAM buffer to the machine page size
Alexander Graf
agraf at suse.de
Sat Sep 15 07:54:20 UTC 2018
> At present the sandbox RAM buffer is not aligned to any particular
> address boundary. This makes the internal pointers somewhat random with
> respect to the associated RAM buffer addresses.
>
> Align the buffer to the page size of the machine to help with this. Note
> that there is a header at the start of the allocated pointer. To avoid
> returning a pointer which is not aligned to a page boundary, we waste
> almost an entire page of memory for each allocation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Thanks, applied to efi-next
Alex
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