Re: SCSI breakage on non-cache coherent architectures

[Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>]

 > 2) Add the __dma_cacheline_aligned tag.
 > 
 > But note that with #2 it could get quite ugly because the
 > alignment and size both have a minimum that needs to be
 > enforced, not just the alignment alone.  So either:
 > 
 > struct foo {
 > 	unsigned int other_unrelated_stuff;
 > 
 > 	struct object dma_thing __dma_cacheline_aligned;
 > 
 > 	unsigned int more_nondma_stuff __dma_cacheline_aligned;
 > };
 > 
 > or:
 > 
 > struct foo {
 > 	unsigned int other_unrelated_stuff;
 > 
 > 	union {
 > 		struct object dma_thing __dma_cacheline_aligned;
 > 		char __pad[(sizeof(object) + DMA_CACHELINE_SIZE &
 > 			   ~DMA_CACHELINE_SIZE)];
 > 	} u;
 > 
 > 	unsigned int more_nondma_stuff __dma_cacheline_aligned;
 > };

I wrapped this ugliness up inside the macro back in what I posted in
2002 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/6/12/234):

#define __dma_buffer __dma_buffer_line(__LINE__)
#define __dma_buffer_line(line) __dma_buffer_expand_line(line)
#define __dma_buffer_expand_line(line) \
	__attribute__ ((aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES))); \
	char __dma_pad_ ## line [0] __attribute__ ((aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES)))

then you just need to tag the actual member like:

	char foo[3] __dma_buffer;

 - R.