Re: [LKML] Re: [PATCH v3] ad7877: keep dma rx buffers in seperate cache lines

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 08:35, Marc Gauthier wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 23:23, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>> Seems that kmalloc is not cacheline aligned on some architectures but
>>> they works. Probably, we might be just lucky because in general they
>>> allocate larger buffers than 64 for DMA via kmalloc and the buffers
>>> are aligned on the size?
>>
>> i think the magic combo is:
>> Â- DMA buffer is written to (receive)
> [...]
>> Â- only on arches that need software cache coherency
>
> In particular, when the architecture port uses cache invalidates that
> throw away dirty lines. ÂThey're equivalent to writing old data to a
> cache line, so an unrelated kmalloc allocation in the same cache line
> gets corrupted.

true; i was thinking of the Blackfin implementation that only has a
FLUSH+INV insn (i complain about the lack of a pure INV insn every now
and again)
-mike
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