Commit eb5f4ca9 authored by Martin Fuzzey's avatar Martin Fuzzey Committed by Russell King

[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: default avatarMartin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent d9244b5d
......@@ -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
......@@ -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
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