linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] parisc: set ARCH_KMALLOC

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Message-ID: <AANLkTilNroeXmUvGscs_bQXyLcLttgYAEl6QtBsAuzlc@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:08:10 -0400
From:	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org, kyle@...artin.ca, deller@....de,
	jejb@...isc-linux.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:50 AM, FUJITA Tomonori
> <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>> This is a resend:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?t=127432584100006&r=1&w=2
>>
>> I thought that it was merged but seems that it was lost somewhere?
>>
>> =
>> From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
>> Subject: [PATCH] parisc: 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>
>> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
>> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
>> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@...isc-linux.org>
>> Cc: stable@...nel.org
>> ---
>>  arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h |    2 ++
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h
>> index 45effe6..5d87f27 100644
>> --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h
>> +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/cache.h
>> @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
>>  #define L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
>>  #endif
>>
>> +#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN  L1_CACHE_BYTES
>> +
>>  #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>>
>>  #define L1_CACHE_ALIGN(x)       (((x)+(L1_CACHE_BYTES-1))&~(L1_CACHE_BYTES-1))
>
> Looks like you can send a patch to kill L1_CACHE_ALIGN too. :)

Doh! I see you already did.

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