Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ibm: emac: Clear MAL descriptors without memset

[Andrew Lunn]

On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 11:45:25AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On 5/17/26 5:36 AM, Rosen Penev wrote:
> > Clear MAL descriptor rings with explicit field stores instead of
> > memset().  The descriptor rings are carved from MAL coherent DMA memory,
> > which may be mapped uncached on 32-bit powerpc.  The optimized memset()
> > path can use dcbz there and trigger an alignment warning.
> 
> Sashiko noted that the compiler could still optimize the above to a
> memset(). Perhaps a barrier() is needed here?

Maybe my understanding is wrong, but the compiler should have the
knowledge about if the addresses are aligned or not, and so if it can
call the optimised memset, or needs to keep with individual byte
accesses?

Has this patch been in user for a while, a port from downstream
OpenWRT or something?

	Andrew