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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net/usb/r815x: replace USB buffer from stack to
 DMA-able
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:20:24 +0200
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On Sat, 2013-07-27 at 20:21 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:59:02 +0800
> 
> > Some USB buffers use stack which may not be DMA-able.
> > Use the buffers from kmalloc to replace those one.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
> 
> I don't think it's reasonable to kmalloc() a small integer every time
> you want to use a USB message transfer to read or write chip
> registers.
> 
> Instead, add a scratch buffer to struct r8152 which is allocated once
> at driver attach time and which you can use for the transfers.
> 
> I think you only need an array of two u32's so something like:
> 
> 	u32		transfer_buf[2];
> 
> ought to be sufficient.

We cannot do that. It would violate the rules about DMA coherency.
We must not touch the same cacheline while DMA is in operation.

	Regards
		Oliver