linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.12 63/65] Revert "MIPS: Dont unnecessarily include kmalloc.h into <asm/cache.h>."

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Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2017 18:19:54 -0700
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Paul Burton <paul.burton@...tec.com>,
        linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.12 63/65] Revert "MIPS: Dont unnecessarily include kmalloc.h into <asm/cache.h>."

4.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@...tec.com>

commit ae5b0675942ab30cde96099c68a2290bd1aafcca upstream.

Commit 296e46db0073 ("MIPS: Don't unnecessarily include kmalloc.h into
<asm/cache.h>.") claimed that the inclusion of the machine's kmalloc.h
from asm/cache.h is unnecessary, but this is not true.

Without including kmalloc.h we don't get a definition for
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, which means we no longer suitably align DMA. Further
to this the definition of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN provided by linux/slab.h
ends up being set to the alignment of an unsigned long long value rather
than to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, which means that buffers allocated using
kmalloc may no longer be safely aligned for use with DMA.

Fix this by re-adding the include of kmalloc.h in asm/cache.h. This
reverts commit 296e46db0073 ("MIPS: Don't unnecessarily include
kmalloc.h into <asm/cache.h>.")

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@...tec.com>
Fixes: 296e46db0073 ("MIPS: Don't unnecessarily include kmalloc.h into <asm/cache.h>.")
Cc: linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16895/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_CACHE_H
 #define _ASM_CACHE_H

+#include <kmalloc.h>
+
 #define L1_CACHE_SHIFT		CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
 #define L1_CACHE_BYTES		(1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)