linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] tile: set ARCH_KMALLOC

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:49:16 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] tile: set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

On 6/29/2010 10:10 PM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> Ok, here's the second version.
>
> Can I assume that you'll merge the patch into your git tree on
> kernel.org?
>   

Sure, I'll take this patch into my arch/tile tree on kernel.org.  I
already took (a superset of) the one removing L1_CACHE_ALIGN as well. 
Thanks.

> =
> From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
> Subject: [PATCH] tile: set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
>
> Architectures that handle DMA-non-coherent memory need to set
> ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to make sure that kmalloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe:
> the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others.
>
> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
> ---
>  arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h |    8 ++++++++
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h
> index ee59714..869a14f 100644
> --- a/arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h
> +++ b/arch/tile/include/asm/cache.h
> @@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
>  #define L2_CACHE_BYTES		(1 << L2_CACHE_SHIFT)
>  #define L2_CACHE_ALIGN(x)	(((x)+(L2_CACHE_BYTES-1)) & -L2_CACHE_BYTES)
>  
> +/*
> + * TILE-Gx is fully coherents so we don't need to define
> + * ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN.
> + */
> +#ifndef __tilegx__
> +#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN	L2_CACHE_BYTES
> +#endif
> +
>  /* use the cache line size for the L2, which is where it counts */
>  #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES_SHIFT	L2_CACHE_SHIFT
>  #define SMP_CACHE_BYTES		L2_CACHE_BYTES
>   

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/