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bionic: allow the board to customize MALLOC_ALIGNMENT

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Currently the dlmalloc allocates the memory with 8-byte alignment.
According to the com.aurorasoftworks.quadrant.ui.professional benchmark data:
We can get much better memory performance if we change it to be 16-byte aligned.
For example, On Nexus-S:
8-byte aligned :
    1378 1070  1142 1665 1765  1163 1179  1263  1404 avg: 1336.555555556
16-byte aligned:
    1691 1731  1780 1691 1671  1678 1802  1758  1780 avg: 1731.333333333
                                                    gain: 29.53%

That patch provides flexibity to customize the MALLOC_ALIGNMENT from the
board config.The macro MALLOC_ALIGNMENT defaults to 8.
To change it, please define BOARD_MALLOC_ALIGNMENT in the BoardConfig.mk:
BOARD_MALLOC_ALIGNMENT := <whatever>

Change-Id: I8da0376944a0bbcef1d0fc026bfb6d9125db9739
Signed-off-by: Jin Wei <wei.a.jin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Beare, Bruce J <bruce.j.beare@intel.com>
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Jack Ren 2011-11-19 09:48:03 +08:00 committed by Elliott Hughes
parent fd95503347
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@ -459,6 +459,13 @@ ifeq ($(strip $(DEBUG_BIONIC_LIBC)),true)
libc_common_cflags += -DDEBUG
endif
# To customize dlmalloc's alignment, set BOARD_MALLOC_ALIGNMENT in
# the appropriate BoardConfig.mk file.
#
ifneq ($(BOARD_MALLOC_ALIGNMENT),)
libc_common_cflags += -DMALLOC_ALIGNMENT=$(BOARD_MALLOC_ALIGNMENT)
endif
ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH),arm)
libc_common_cflags += -fstrict-aliasing
libc_crt_target_cflags := -mthumb-interwork