* [PATCH 8/14] powerpc: Fix kmalloc alignmenent on non-coherent DMA
@ 2007-11-21 6:15 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt @ 2007-11-21 6:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev
On platforms doing non-coherent DMA (4xx, 8xx, ...), it's important that
kmalloc minimum alignment is set to the cache line size, to avoid sharing
cache lines between different objects.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
include/asm-powerpc/page_32.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
Index: linux-work/include/asm-powerpc/page_32.h
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/include/asm-powerpc/page_32.h 2007-11-19 15:01:08.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/include/asm-powerpc/page_32.h 2007-11-19 15:01:17.000000000 +1100
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
#define PPC_MEMSTART 0
+#ifdef CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
+#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
+#endif
+
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
/*
* The basic type of a PTE - 64 bits for those CPUs with > 32 bit
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