2009-04-26 22:37:53 Aligning buffer fails

Gopal Karanam (INDIA)

Message: 73245

Hello,

I've to align DMA buffers to 32-byte boundary to avoid boundary issues with cache. I'm using the following attribute to align buffers

unsigned int buf1[BUF_SIZE] __attribute__ ((aligned(32)));

But the linker seems to ignore this and align the buffer only to a 4-byte boundary. Even aligned(16) didn't work. Is there any limitation in the linker with alignment?

Thanks,

Gopal

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2009-04-26 22:40:26 Re: Aligning buffer fails

Mike Frysinger (UNITED STATES)

Message: 73246

are you declaring the buffer on the stack or in the .data/.bss ? aligned attributes do not work for the stack but should work just fine for .data/.bss.

if you're writing the linker script yourself and arent just globbing sections, you need to set the ALIGN() yourself.

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2009-04-26 22:56:59 Re: Aligning buffer fails

Gopal Karanam (INDIA)

Message: 73247

Hi Mike,

I'm declaring the buffers in .bss (global). I'm not writing any linker script just using the simple Makefile described in the "Hello world" example on the Wiki.

- Gopal

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2009-04-26 23:11:18 Re: Aligning buffer fails

Gopal Karanam (INDIA)

Message: 73249

Here is a simple program to demonstrate the failure.

Compiled with the following command:

bfin-uclinux-gcc -DEMBED -D__uClinux__ -mcpu=bf548-0.1 -Wall -Wl,-elf2flt x.c -o x

x.c

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2009-04-26 23:14:11 Re: Aligning buffer fails

Gopal Karanam (INDIA)