On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 23:39:44 +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> In accordance with [1] the DMA-able memory buffers must be
> cacheline-aligned otherwise the cache writing-back and invalidation
> performed during the mapping may cause the adjacent data being lost. It's
> specifically required for the DMA-noncoherent platforms [2]. Seeing the
> opal_dev.{cmd,resp} buffers are implicitly used for DMAs in the NVME and
> SCSI/SD drivers in framework of the nvme_sec_submit() and sd_sec_submit()
> methods respectively they must be cacheline-aligned to prevent the denoted
> problem. One of the option to guarantee that is to kmalloc the buffers
> [2]. Let's explicitly allocate them then instead of embedding into the
> opal_dev structure instance.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] block: sed-opal: kmalloc the cmd/resp buffers
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Best regards,
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Jens Axboe
