linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: edma: Align the memcpy acnt array size with the transfer

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Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:51:26 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>
Cc:     dan.j.williams@...el.com, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dmaengine: edma: Align the memcpy acnt array size
 with the transfer

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:16:26AM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> Memory to Memory transfers does not have any special alignment needs
> regarding to acnt array size, but if one of the areas are in memory mapped
> regions (like PCIe memory), we need to make sure that the acnt array size
> is aligned with the mem copy parameters.
> 
> Before "dmaengine: edma: Optimize memcpy operation" change the memcpy was set
> up in a different way: acnt == number of bytes in a word based on
> __ffs((src | dest | len), bcnt and ccnt for looping the necessary number of
> words to comlete the trasnfer.
> 
> Instead of reverting the commit we can fix it to make sure that the ACNT size
> is aligned to the traswnfer.

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod