linux/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
Martin Fuzzey eb5f4ca953 [ARM] 5534/1: kmalloc must return a cache line aligned buffer
Define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN in asm/cache.h
At the request of Russell also move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN to this file.

Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-02 22:36:15 +01:00

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/*
* arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
*/
#ifndef __ASMARM_CACHE_H
#define __ASMARM_CACHE_H
#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
#define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
/*
* Memory returned by kmalloc() may be used for DMA, so we must make
* sure that all such allocations are cache aligned. Otherwise,
* unrelated code may cause parts of the buffer to be read into the
* cache before the transfer is done, causing old data to be seen by
* the CPU.
*/
#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
/*
* With EABI on ARMv5 and above we must have 64-bit aligned slab pointers.
*/
#if defined(CONFIG_AEABI) && (__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 5)
#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
#endif
#endif