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Some SoC data requires huge alignments. E.g., the µDMA channel control table has to be 1024-byte aligned. This table was simply aligned to 1024 bytes in the C code, which had the following consequences, wasting a lot of RAM: - As this table could be placed anywhere in .bss, there could be an alignment gap of up to 1023 bytes between the preceding data and this table. - The size of this table was also aligned to 1024 bytes, regardless of UDMA_CONF_MAX_CHANNEL, making this configuration option supposed to save RAM just useless. - .bss was also aligned to at least 1024 bytes, creating a huge alignment gap between .data and .bss. Instead of relying on the compiler to force this alignment, and on the linker to automatically place data, this change places carefully such SoC data in RAM using the linker script. A dedicated section is created to place such SoC data requiring huge alignments, and it is put at the beginning of the SRAM in order to ensure a maximal alignment without any gap. In this way, the alignment of .bss also remains normal, and the size of this table is not constrained by its alignment, but only by its contents (i.e. by UDMA_CONF_MAX_CHANNEL). In the case of the µDMA channel control table, the data is still zeroed by udma_init() (instead of also being zeroed as part of .bss). Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com> |
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The Contiki Operating System
Contiki is an open source operating system that runs on tiny low-power microcontrollers and makes it possible to develop applications that make efficient use of the hardware while providing standardized low-power wireless communication for a range of hardware platforms.
Contiki is used in numerous commercial and non-commercial systems, such as city sound monitoring, street lights, networked electrical power meters, industrial monitoring, radiation monitoring, construction site monitoring, alarm systems, remote house monitoring, and so on.
For more information, see the Contiki website: