In include/asm-mips/cache.h: #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN 8 Is this line really needed? If it was not defined (and ARCH_KMALLOC_FLAGS was also not defined), default alignment (cache_line_size()) will be used for kmalloc. It is enough, isn't it? Also, with current 8 byte alignment, many PCI drivers which are using kmalloc and dma_map_single are broken on non-coherent system. I was told that those drivers should use dma_get_cache_alignment() API, but currently nobody do it anyway. Removing ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN will help those (broken?) drivers. --- Atsushi Nemoto
