On 09/12/2012 10:19 AM, Tom Warren wrote: > Folks, > > Stephen Warren has posted an internal bug regarding the cache > alignment 'warnings' seen on Tegra20 boards when accessing MMC. Here's > the gist: > > Executing "mmc dev 0" still yields cache warnings: > > Tegra20 (Harmony) # mmc dev 0 > ERROR: v7_dcache_inval_range- stop address is not aligned- 0x3fb69908 > mmc0 is current device ... > There have been patches in the past (IIRC) that have tried to ensure > all callers (FS, MMC driver, USB driver, etc.) force their buffers to > the appropriate alignment, but I don't know that we can ever correct > every instance, now or in the future. > > Can we start a discussion about what we can do about this warning? > Adding an appropriate #ifdef (CONFIG_SYS_NO_CACHE_ALIGNMENT_WARNINGS, > etc.) where Stephen put his #if 0's would be one approach, or changing > the printf() to a debug(), perhaps. As far as I can tell, these > alignment 'errors' don't seem to produce bad data in the transfer.
I don't think simply turning off the warning is the correct approach; I believe they represent real problems that can in fact cause data corruption. I don't believe we have any choice other than to fully solve the root-cause. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot