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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html