Re: [PATCH v3] devres: Explicitly align datai[] to 64-bit

[Alexey Brodkin]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 16:49 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 02:33:26PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > > In fact, since alloc_dr() uses kmalloc() to allocate the entire thing,
> > > it is impossible to guarantee a larger alignment than kmalloc does.
> > 
> > Well but 4-bytes [which is critical for atomic64_t] should be much less
> > than a sane cache line length so above should work.
> 
> AFAICT ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN ends up being 4 on x86_32 (it doesn't
> define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN and doesn't seem to otherwise override the
> thing).
> 
> So unconditionally setting the alignment of devres::data to 8 seems
> broken.

Well but then what other options do we have to fix a problem with
misaligned access to atomic64_t in drm_gpu_scheduler?

-Alexey