Virtualization - Aug 2021 - [PATCH v4 1/2] tty: hvc: pass DMA capable memory to put_chars()

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:08 AM Xianting TIan
<xianting.tian at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> ? 2021/8/6 ??10:51, Arnd Bergmann ??:
> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 5:01 AM Xianting Tian
> >> +#define __ALIGNED__ __attribute__((__aligned__(sizeof(long))))
> > I think you need a higher alignment for DMA buffers, instead of
sizeof(long),
> > I would suggest ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.
>
> As some ARCH(eg, x86, riscv) doesn't define ARCH_DMA_MINALIG, so i
think
> it 's better remain the code unchanged,
>
> I will send v5 patch soon.
I think you could just use "L1_CACHE_BYTES" as the alignment in this
case.
This will make the structure slightly larger for architectures that do not have
alignment constraints on DMA buffers, but using a smaller alignment is
clearly wrong. Another option would be to use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN.

Note that there is a patch to add ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to riscv already,
as some implementations do not have coherent DMA. I had failed to
realized though that on x86 you do not get an ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
definition.

       Arnd