linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm] Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO: add ARCH_KMALLOC

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Date:	Sat, 22 May 2010 09:37:51 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, mpm@...enic.com
Subject: [PATCH -mm] Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO: add ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
 description

Adds ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN description in "Platform Issues" section.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
---
 Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index bfd94e9..98ce517 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -738,7 +738,20 @@ to "Closing".
    CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH if the architecture supports IOMMUs
    (including software IOMMU).
 
-2) More to come...
+2) ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
+
+   Architectures must ensure that kmalloc'ed buffer is
+   DMA-safe. Drivers and subsystems depend on it. If an architecture
+   isn't fully DMA-coherent (i.e. hardware doesn't ensure that data in
+   the CPU cache is identical to data in main memory),
+   ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator
+   makes sure that kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't share a cache line with
+   the others. See arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h as an example.
+
+   Note that ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment
+   constraints. You don't need to worry about the architecture data
+   alignment constraints (e.g. the alignment constraints about 64-bit
+   objects).
 
 			   Closing
 
-- 
1.6.5

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