[Skiboot] [PATCH 2/3] flash: Use blocklevel to do ECC reads
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jul 5 15:37:24 AEST 2016
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 15:25 +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> However in the ECC case blocklevel_read() mallocs an entire buffer for the
> ECC'd data rather than copying ECC data to the non-ECC buffer blocks at a time
> like flash_read_corrected(), so it may increase memory usage. In practice it
> won't change much though as we don't actually have any large ECC protected
> partitions at present.
I'm very worried of malloc's at runtime though... we might want to look
into fixing that.
Cheers,
Ben.
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