Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] drivers: iio: adc: add support for ad777x family

[Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 06:45:16PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:32:49 +0000
> "Nechita, Ramona" <Ramona.Nechita@analog.com> wrote:

...

> > >> +	/*
> > >> +	 * DMA (thus cache coherency maintenance) requires the
> > >> +	 * transfer buffers to live in their own cache lines.
> > >> +	 */
> > >> +	struct {
> > >> +		u32 chans[8];
> > >> +		s64 timestamp;  
> > >
> > >	aligned_s64 timestamp;
> > >
> > >while it makes no difference in this case, this makes code aligned inside the IIO subsystem.  
> > 
> > I might be missing something but I can't find the aligned_s64 data type, should I define it myself
> > in the driver?
> 
> Recent addition to the iio tree so it is in linux-next but not in mainline yet.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git/commit/?h=togreg&id=e4ca0e59c39442546866f3dd514a3a5956577daf
> It just missed last cycle.
> 
> > >> +	} data __aligned(IIO_DMA_MINALIGN);  
> > >
> > >Note, this is different alignment to the above. And isn't the buffer below should have it instead?
> 
> While I'm here:  No to this one.  The s64 alignment is about
> performance of CPU access + consistency across CPU architectures.
> This one (which happens to always be 8 or more) is about DMA safety.

Right, but shouldn't...

> > >> +	u32			spidata_tx[8];

> > >> +	u8			reg_rx_buf[3];
> > >> +	u8			reg_tx_buf[3];

...one of these also be cache aligned for DMA?

> > >> +	u8			reset_buf[8];

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko