diff --git a/disk/part_efi.c b/disk/part_efi.c
index e9987f055c..5986589708 100644
--- a/disk/part_efi.c
+++ b/disk/part_efi.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static inline int is_bootable(gpt_entry *p)
 
 void print_part_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc)
 {
-	ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER(gpt_header, gpt_head, 1);
+	ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER_PAD(gpt_header, gpt_head, 1, dev_desc->blksz);
 	gpt_entry *gpt_pte = NULL;
 	int i = 0;
 	char uuid[37];
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ void print_part_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc)
 int get_partition_info_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc, int part,
 				disk_partition_t * info)
 {
-	ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER(gpt_header, gpt_head, 1);
+	ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER_PAD(gpt_header, gpt_head, 1, dev_desc->blksz);
 	gpt_entry *gpt_pte = NULL;
 
 	/* "part" argument must be at least 1 */
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ int get_partition_info_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc, int part,
 	/* The ending LBA is inclusive, to calculate size, add 1 to it */
 	info->size = ((u64)le64_to_cpu(gpt_pte[part - 1].ending_lba) + 1)
 		     - info->start;
-	info->blksz = GPT_BLOCK_SIZE;
+	info->blksz = dev_desc->blksz;
 
 	sprintf((char *)info->name, "%s",
 			print_efiname(&gpt_pte[part - 1]));
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ int get_partition_info_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc, int part,
 
 int test_part_efi(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc)
 {
-	ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER(legacy_mbr, legacymbr, 1);
+	ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER_PAD(legacy_mbr, legacymbr, 1, dev_desc->blksz);
 
 	/* Read legacy MBR from block 0 and validate it */
 	if ((dev_desc->block_read(dev_desc->dev, 0, 1, (ulong *)legacymbr) != 1)
@@ -311,9 +311,8 @@ static int string_uuid(char *uuid, u8 *dst)
 int write_gpt_table(block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc,
 		gpt_header *gpt_h, gpt_entry *gpt_e)
 {
-	const int pte_blk_num = (gpt_h->num_partition_entries
-		* sizeof(gpt_entry)) / dev_desc->blksz;
-
+	const int pte_blk_cnt = BLOCK_CNT((gpt_h->num_partition_entries
+					   * sizeof(gpt_entry)), dev_desc);
 	u32 calc_crc32;
 	u64 val;
 
@@ -336,8 +335,8 @@ int write_gpt_table(block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc,
 	if (dev_desc->block_write(dev_desc->dev, 1, 1, gpt_h) != 1)
 		goto err;
 
-	if (dev_desc->block_write(dev_desc->dev, 2, pte_blk_num, gpt_e)
-	    != pte_blk_num)
+	if (dev_desc->block_write(dev_desc->dev, 2, pte_blk_cnt, gpt_e)
+	    != pte_blk_cnt)
 		goto err;
 
 	/* recalculate the values for the Second GPT Header */
@@ -352,7 +351,7 @@ int write_gpt_table(block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc,
 
 	if (dev_desc->block_write(dev_desc->dev,
 				  le32_to_cpu(gpt_h->last_usable_lba + 1),
-				  pte_blk_num, gpt_e) != pte_blk_num)
+				  pte_blk_cnt, gpt_e) != pte_blk_cnt)
 		goto err;
 
 	if (dev_desc->block_write(dev_desc->dev,
@@ -462,13 +461,18 @@ int gpt_restore(block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc, char *str_disk_guid,
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	gpt_header *gpt_h = calloc(1, sizeof(gpt_header));
+	gpt_header *gpt_h = calloc(1, PAD_TO_BLOCKSIZE(sizeof(gpt_header),
+						       dev_desc));
+	gpt_entry *gpt_e;
+
 	if (gpt_h == NULL) {
 		printf("%s: calloc failed!\n", __func__);
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	gpt_entry *gpt_e = calloc(GPT_ENTRY_NUMBERS, sizeof(gpt_entry));
+	gpt_e = calloc(1, PAD_TO_BLOCKSIZE(GPT_ENTRY_NUMBERS
+					       * sizeof(gpt_entry),
+					       dev_desc));
 	if (gpt_e == NULL) {
 		printf("%s: calloc failed!\n", __func__);
 		free(gpt_h);
@@ -652,7 +656,7 @@ static int is_gpt_valid(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc, unsigned long long lba,
 static gpt_entry *alloc_read_gpt_entries(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc,
 					 gpt_header * pgpt_head)
 {
-	size_t count = 0;
+	size_t count = 0, blk_cnt;
 	gpt_entry *pte = NULL;
 
 	if (!dev_desc || !pgpt_head) {
@@ -669,7 +673,8 @@ static gpt_entry *alloc_read_gpt_entries(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc,
 
 	/* Allocate memory for PTE, remember to FREE */
 	if (count != 0) {
-		pte = memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, count);
+		pte = memalign(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN,
+			       PAD_TO_BLOCKSIZE(count, dev_desc));
 	}
 
 	if (count == 0 || pte == NULL) {
@@ -680,10 +685,11 @@ static gpt_entry *alloc_read_gpt_entries(block_dev_desc_t * dev_desc,
 	}
 
 	/* Read GPT Entries from device */
+	blk_cnt = BLOCK_CNT(count, dev_desc);
 	if (dev_desc->block_read (dev_desc->dev,
 		le64_to_cpu(pgpt_head->partition_entry_lba),
-		(lbaint_t) (count / GPT_BLOCK_SIZE), pte)
-		!= (count / GPT_BLOCK_SIZE)) {
+		(lbaint_t) (blk_cnt), pte)
+		!= blk_cnt) {
 
 		printf("*** ERROR: Can't read GPT Entries ***\n");
 		free(pte);
diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h
index 28aa4b9d60..84315a0b43 100644
--- a/include/common.h
+++ b/include/common.h
@@ -1011,10 +1011,17 @@ static inline phys_addr_t map_to_sysmem(void *ptr)
  * of a function scoped static buffer.  It can not be used to create a cache
  * line aligned global buffer.
  */
-#define ALLOC_ALIGN_BUFFER(type, name, size, align)			\
-	char __##name[ROUND(size * sizeof(type), align) + (align - 1)];	\
+#define PAD_COUNT(s, pad) ((s - 1) / pad + 1)
+#define PAD_SIZE(s, pad) (PAD_COUNT(s, pad) * pad)
+#define ALLOC_ALIGN_BUFFER_PAD(type, name, size, align, pad)		\
+	char __##name[ROUND(PAD_SIZE(size * sizeof(type), pad), align)  \
+		      + (align - 1)];					\
 									\
 	type *name = (type *) ALIGN((uintptr_t)__##name, align)
+#define ALLOC_ALIGN_BUFFER(type, name, size, align)		\
+	ALLOC_ALIGN_BUFFER_PAD(type, name, size, align, 1)
+#define ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER_PAD(type, name, size, pad)		\
+	ALLOC_ALIGN_BUFFER_PAD(type, name, size, ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, pad)
 #define ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER(type, name, size)			\
 	ALLOC_ALIGN_BUFFER(type, name, size, ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN)
 
diff --git a/include/part.h b/include/part.h
index c58a734ada..12e9b056e4 100644
--- a/include/part.h
+++ b/include/part.h
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ typedef struct block_dev_desc {
 	void		*priv;		/* driver private struct pointer */
 }block_dev_desc_t;
 
+#define BLOCK_CNT(size, block_dev_desc) (PAD_COUNT(size, block_dev_desc->blksz))
+#define PAD_TO_BLOCKSIZE(size, block_dev_desc) \
+	(PAD_SIZE(size, block_dev_desc->blksz))
+
 /* Interface types: */
 #define IF_TYPE_UNKNOWN		0
 #define IF_TYPE_IDE		1
diff --git a/include/part_efi.h b/include/part_efi.h
index 6de0a3258a..95e4c8f61e 100644
--- a/include/part_efi.h
+++ b/include/part_efi.h
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 #define EFI_PMBR_OSTYPE_EFI 0xEF
 #define EFI_PMBR_OSTYPE_EFI_GPT 0xEE
 
-#define GPT_BLOCK_SIZE 512
 #define GPT_HEADER_SIGNATURE 0x5452415020494645ULL
 #define GPT_HEADER_REVISION_V1 0x00010000
 #define GPT_PRIMARY_PARTITION_TABLE_LBA 1ULL
@@ -112,7 +111,6 @@ typedef struct _gpt_header {
 	__le32 num_partition_entries;
 	__le32 sizeof_partition_entry;
 	__le32 partition_entry_array_crc32;
-	u8 reserved2[GPT_BLOCK_SIZE - 92];
 } __packed gpt_header;
 
 typedef union _gpt_entry_attributes {