From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath9k: Clear DMA descriptors without memset
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:10:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ik821eld.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260517042716.2218386-1-rosenp@gmail.com>
Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com> writes:
> Clear ath9k DMA descriptors with explicit status word stores instead of
> memset(). The descriptor rings are coherent DMA memory, which may be
> mapped uncached on 32-bit powerpc. The optimized memset() path can use
> dcbz there and trigger an alignment warning.
>
> Use WRITE_ONCE() for the descriptor status words so the compiler keeps
> the clears as ordinary stores instead of folding them back into bulk
> memset(). This covers AR9003 TX status descriptors as well as the RX
> status area cleared when setting up RX descriptors.
>
> Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.5
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
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2026-05-17 4:27 [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath9k: Clear DMA descriptors without memset Rosen Penev
2026-06-01 15:10 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
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