netdev - Re: Alignment issues with freescale FEC driver

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Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2016 05:27:15 -0700
From:   Eric Nelson <eric@...int.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     edumazet@...gle.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk,
        fugang.duan@....com, troy.kisky@...ndarydevices.com,
        otavio@...ystems.com.br, cjb.sw.nospam@...il.com
Subject: Re: Alignment issues with freescale FEC driver

Hi David,

On 09/23/2016 07:43 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Nelson <eric@...int.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:33:29 -0700
> 
>> Since the hardware requires longword alignment for its' DMA transfers,
>> aligning the IP header will require a memcpy, right?
> 
> I wish hardware designers didn't do this.
> 
> There is no conflict between DMA alignment and properly offseting
> the packet data by two bytes.
> 
> All hardware designers have to do is allow 2 padding bytes to be
> emitted by the chip before the actual packet data.
> 

Andrew Lunn pointed out that the hardware does support this,
and I just pushed a patch for the vendor kernel to the meta-freescale
mailing list:

https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-freescale/2016-September/019228.html

> Then the longword or whatever DMA transfer alignment is met
> whilst still giving the necessary flexibility for where the
> packet data lands.
> 

Right. A relatively small change fixes things right up.

Many thanks to Andrew for pointing this out and Russell for providing
the basis for my patch.

I'll re-work this for the up-stream kernel when I get out from
under a couple of unrelated things.