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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:31:01 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r356693 - in head/stand: efi/libefi i386/libi386 libofw uboot/lib
Message-ID:  <5a3e388ed5c91a6d1f88ecc91c08dc103d0369d1.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <202001131822.00DIMtrW016338@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202001131822.00DIMtrW016338@repo.freebsd.org>

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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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