Re: [PATCH 01/12] usb: chipidea: udc: add attribute aligned(4) to shared memory structs

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 05:58:37PM +0100, Michael Grzeschik wrote:
> The udc uses an shared dma memory space between hard and software. This
> memory layout is described in ci13xxx_qh and ci13xxx_td which are marked
> with the attribute ((packed)).
> 
> The compiler currently does not know about the alignment of the memory
> layout, and will create strb and ldrb operations.
> 
> The Datasheet of the synopsys core describes, that some operations on
> the mapped memory need to be atomic double word operations. I.e. the
> next pointer addressing in the qhead, as otherwise the hardware could
> read wrong data and totally stuck.
> 
> This patch adds the attribute ((aligned(4))) to the structures to tell
> the compiler to use 32bit operations. It also adds an wmb() for the
> prepared TD data before it gets enqueued into the qhead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cc stable ?

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