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@@ -738,7 +738,20 @@ to "Closing".
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CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH if the architecture supports IOMMUs
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(including software IOMMU).
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-2) More to come...
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+2) ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
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+
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+ Architectures must ensure that kmalloc'ed buffer is
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+ DMA-safe. Drivers and subsystems depend on it. If an architecture
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+ isn't fully DMA-coherent (i.e. hardware doesn't ensure that data in
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+ the CPU cache is identical to data in main memory),
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+ ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator
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+ makes sure that kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't share a cache line with
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+ the others. See arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h as an example.
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+
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+ Note that ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment
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+ constraints. You don't need to worry about the architecture data
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+ alignment constraints (e.g. the alignment constraints about 64-bit
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+ objects).
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Closing
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