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From: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@sigma-chemnitz.de>
To: Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: malloc() alignment on 32 bit
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:24:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyfsgbyey0.fsf@ensc-pc.intern.sigma-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220920073622.GE6477@pengutronix.de> (Sascha Hauer's message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:36:22 +0200")

Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de> writes:

> So it seems it's really a good idea to increase malloc alignment
> accordingly.

But this does not seem to be trivial :(

A naive

| -	ALIGN_SIZE_LOG2 = 2,
| +	ALIGN_SIZE_LOG2 = 3,

triggers a lot of warnings.


I think, ALIGN_SIZE in tlsf_add_pool() and in the higher level functions
(tlsf_malloc(), _memalign(), _realloc()) should be replaced by a new,
bigger constant.

But this appears invasive and I have no idea about tlsf and the sideeffects :(


There exists https://github.com/mattconte/tlsf/issues/16 which asks for
proper alignment; but project seems to be unmaintained.


Replacing 'malloc()' with 'memalign()' on problems, seems the best idea
for now.


Enrico



      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-28 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-19 12:37 Enrico Scholz
2022-09-19 13:33 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2022-09-19 13:57 ` Sascha Hauer
2022-09-19 14:24   ` Enrico Scholz
2022-09-20  7:36     ` Sascha Hauer
2022-09-28 10:24       ` Enrico Scholz [this message]

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