Re: [PATCH 1/4] block: use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as the default dma pad mask

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On Tue, 20 May 2008 17:38:20 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:31:29AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > So here you're using it for "dma aligment" whereas crypto is using it
> > (or ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN!) for "cpu 64-bit alignment".
> 
> No the 64-bit alignment is just an example.  The purpose of
> CRYPTO_MINALIGN is pretty much the same as ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN,
> i.e., the minimum alignment guaranteed by kmalloc.  The only
> reason it exists is because ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN isn't defined
> on all platforms.

struct ablkcipher_request {
	struct crypto_async_request base;

	unsigned int nbytes;

	void *info;

	struct scatterlist *src;
	struct scatterlist *dst;

	void *__ctx[] CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR;
};

Does someone do DMA from/to __ctx?
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