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Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:50:37 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Linux IOMMU <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid@...ehiking.org>,
        "Maciej W . Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
        Matt Wang <wwentao@...are.com>,
        Miquel van Smoorenburg <mikevs@...all.net>,
        Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        alpha <linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Parisc List <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arch/*/: remove CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 11:03 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com> wrote:
> On 28/06/22 19:03, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> The driver allocates bounce buffers using kmalloc if it hits an
> >> unaligned data buffer - can such buffers still even happen these days?
> > No idea.
> Hmmm - I think I'll stick a WARN_ONCE() in there so we know whether this
> code path is still being used.

kmalloc() guarantees alignment to the next power-of-two size or
KMALLOC_MIN_ALIGN, whichever is bigger. On m68k this means it
is cacheline aligned.

      Arnd

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