on ARM using dfu mode we've seen problems with dma memory allocations.
Some drivers use dma_inv_range on allocated buffers, which corrupts memory
around the buffer, it it's not aligned to cache lines. This series
introduces: dma_alloc() and dma_free() that allocate memory aligned to
cache lines. This is 64 bytes on ARM (just to be sure) and
DCACHE_LINE_SIZE on nios2. All other arch do a transparent xmalloc.
Feel free to add the appropriate alignment for your architecture to
"include/asm/dma.h". If you do so add a
#define dma_alloc dma_alloc
#define dma_free dma_free
to your "asm/dma.h" so that the generic funtion won't be used.
changes since v1:
- align size to cache line size, too (tnx Sascha)
- provide a generic "include/dma.h" which implements generic fallbacks
using ifndef dma_{alloc,free} magic.
- add includes to arm and nions implementations
regards, Marc
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