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[ARM] 5534/1: kmalloc must return a cache line aligned buffer

Define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN in asm/cache.h
At the request of Russell also move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN to this file.

Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Martin Fuzzey 16 年之前
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共有 2 個文件被更改,包括 16 次插入7 次删除
  1. 16 0
      arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
  2. 0 7
      arch/arm/include/asm/page.h

+ 16 - 0
arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h

@@ -7,4 +7,20 @@
 #define L1_CACHE_SHIFT		5
 #define L1_CACHE_BYTES		(1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
 
+/*
+ * Memory returned by kmalloc() may be used for DMA, so we must make
+ * sure that all such allocations are cache aligned. Otherwise,
+ * unrelated code may cause parts of the buffer to be read into the
+ * cache before the transfer is done, causing old data to be seen by
+ * the CPU.
+ */
+#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN	L1_CACHE_BYTES
+
+/*
+ * With EABI on ARMv5 and above we must have 64-bit aligned slab pointers.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_AEABI) && (__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 5)
+#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
+#endif
+
 #endif

+ 0 - 7
arch/arm/include/asm/page.h

@@ -202,13 +202,6 @@ typedef struct page *pgtable_t;
 	(((current->personality & READ_IMPLIES_EXEC) ? VM_EXEC : 0) | \
 	 VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC)
 
-/*
- * With EABI on ARMv5 and above we must have 64-bit aligned slab pointers.
- */
-#if defined(CONFIG_AEABI) && (__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 5)
-#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
-#endif
-
 #include <asm-generic/page.h>
 
 #endif