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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: mm: define NET_IP_ALIGN to 0
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:04:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181128120455.GB24868@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181128150225.8D30.4A936039@socionext.com>

Hi Kunihiko,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:02:25PM +0900, Kunihiko Hayashi wrote:
> I found that arm64 board that had AVE controller couldn't receive
> any packets after this change.
> 
> AVE controller (hardware) forces to ignore lower 2bits of buffer start address,
> that is, the address is always aligned with 4bytes.
> And more, the controller puts received datas with "2byte headroom" [1].
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c#n591

Is this "2-byte headroom" a fixed property of the hardware? If so, it seems
like you should just be using 2 instead of NET_IP_ALIGN when calculating the
DMA address of the skb buffer.

Will

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-28 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-07 17:10 [PATCH] arm64: mm: define NET_IP_ALIGN to 0 Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-07 18:10 ` Mark Rutland
2018-11-07 23:18   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-08 10:06     ` Mark Rutland
2018-11-08 10:34       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-07 21:14 ` Will Deacon
2018-11-08 12:22 ` Ilias Apalodimas
2018-11-08 17:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-11-28  6:02 ` Kunihiko Hayashi
2018-11-28 11:58   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-29  1:50     ` Kunihiko Hayashi
2018-11-28 12:04   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-11-29  1:51     ` Kunihiko Hayashi

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