svn commit: r356693 - in head/stand: efi/libefi i386/libi386 libofw uboot/lib

Ian Lepore ian at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 13 18:31:05 UTC 2020


On Mon, 2020-01-13 at 18:22 +0000, Toomas Soome wrote:
> Author: tsoome
> Date: Mon Jan 13 18:22:54 2020
> New Revision: 356693
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/356693
> 
> Log:
>   loader: allocate properly aligned buffer for network packet
>   
>   Use memalign(4, size) to ensure we have properly aligned buffer.
>   
>   MFC after:	2 weeks
> 
> Modified:
>   head/stand/efi/libefi/efinet.c
>   head/stand/i386/libi386/pxe.c
>   head/stand/libofw/ofw_net.c
>   head/stand/uboot/lib/net.c
> 

The malloc implementation in libstand already g'tees minimum alignment
of 16 bytes on most arches, 64 bytes on arches that use u-boot (see
libsa/zalloc_defs.h).  So how does this change anything?

-- Ian



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