On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 07:53 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Thursday, July 02, 2015 at 01:04:52 AM, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
> > From: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswi...@toradex.com>
> > 
> > Various U-Boot adoptions/extensions to MTD/NAND/UBI did not take buffer
> > alignment into account which led to failures of the following form:
> > 
> > ERROR: v7_dcache_inval_range - start address is not aligned - 0x1f7f0108
> > ERROR: v7_dcache_inval_range - stop address is not aligned - 0x1f7f1108
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswi...@toradex.com>
> 
> What about using ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER() and friends instead ? See
> include/common.h for their definition, this is what those functions are
> exactly for.

ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER() is for statically allocating an aligned buffer.  
Dynamically allocating an aligned buffer is exactly what memalign() is for.

-Scott

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