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From: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] net: fec: Avoid MX28 bus sync issue
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:37:44 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOMZO5AZKjHDe34=4TXqB+Db93WBgK0pm5Z=vt7X=AtzgbsEdg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130912185349.9743B380189@gemini.denx.de>

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Fabio Estevam,
>
> In message <CAOMZO5BY6kDOCoWn_SRwhPE7ssMjAReZ2bcFXGgFF-_Wrdgo0g@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> > It makes perfect sense to allocate variable with function scope only
>> > on the stack.  That's what the stack has been invented for.
>>
>> This buffer in the fec driver will be used in DMA transfer, so maybe
>> that's the reason we should use malloc instead of using the stack?
>
> What has DMA to do with that?  We're talking about alignment only.

I mentioned DMA because we align the buffer with __aligned(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN).

Will try to see if I can reproduce the problem here, but the last time
I tried I was not able to.

Maybe the gcc version that Robert and Hector pointed out may explain
the different behaviour.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-11 23:03 [U-Boot] [PATCH] net: fec: Avoid MX28 bus sync issue Marek Vasut
2013-07-11 23:18 ` Fabio Estevam
2013-07-12  3:41   ` Alexandre Pereira da Silva
2013-07-12  3:51     ` Marek Vasut
2013-07-12 11:37       ` Hector Palacios
2013-07-12 11:39         ` Fabio Estevam
2013-07-12 12:01         ` Marek Vasut
2013-07-12 15:08           ` Hector Palacios
2013-07-12 15:50             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-12 16:48             ` Marek Vasut
2013-07-15  8:58               ` Hector Palacios
2013-07-15 12:30                 ` Marek Vasut
2013-07-15 15:09                   ` Hector Palacios
2013-07-15 15:12                     ` Marek Vasut
2013-07-15 15:24                       ` Hector Palacios
2013-07-16  3:51                     ` Fabio Estevam
2013-07-16  4:18                       ` Fabio Estevam
2013-07-16  4:44                         ` Marek Vasut
2013-07-17 15:55                           ` Hector Palacios
2013-07-18  4:12                             ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-12 10:22                             ` Hector Palacios
2013-09-12 10:50                               ` Marek Vasut
     [not found]                                 ` <52319DE8.5080607@digi.com>
2013-09-12 11:00                                   ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-12 11:02                                 ` Robert Hodaszi
2013-09-12 14:05                                   ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-12 14:15                                     ` Robert Hodaszi
2013-09-12 14:31                                       ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-12 14:32                                         ` Robert Hodaszi
2013-09-12 15:06                                           ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-12 18:17                                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-09-12 18:39                                       ` Fabio Estevam
2013-09-12 18:53                                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-09-12 19:37                                           ` Fabio Estevam [this message]
2013-09-13 11:11                                             ` Robert Hodaszi
2013-09-13 11:13                                               ` Robert Hodaszi
2013-09-13 14:01                                                 ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-13 14:24                                                   ` Robert Hodaszi
2013-09-13 16:06                                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-09-13 16:24                                                 ` Marek Vasut
2013-09-13 17:46                                                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-09-14 22:05                                                     ` Fabio Estevam
2013-09-12 11:08                                 ` Robert Hodaszi
2013-09-12 18:12                                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-09-12 17:50                               ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-07-13  2:43   ` Troy Kisky
2013-07-15 13:41     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-15 17:39       ` Troy Kisky
2013-07-15 19:59         ` Troy Kisky
2013-07-15 20:20           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-15 20:20         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-15 21:18           ` Troy Kisky
2013-07-12  5:57 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-12  6:39   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-12 11:51     ` Marek Vasut
2013-07-12  6:56   ` Stefano Babic
2013-07-12  7:30 ` Stefano Babic
2013-09-15 18:12 Oliver Metz
2013-09-15 18:16 ` Fabio Estevam

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