On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 08:59:18AM +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 02:57:49PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > In preparation for supporting a dynamic kmalloc() minimum alignment, > > allow architectures to define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN independently of > > ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. In addition, always define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN even if > > an architecture does not override it. > > [ +Cc slab maintainer/reviewers ] > > I get why you want to set minimum alignment of kmalloc() dynamically. > That's because cache line size can be different and we cannot statically > know that, right? > > But I don't get why you are trying to decouple ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN > from ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. kmalloc'ed buffer is always supposed to be DMA-safe. Arnd already replied. With this series, kmalloc'ed buffers are still DMA-safe for the SoC the kernel is running on. -- Catalin
