[PATCH] MIPS: ath79: reduce ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN

From: Rosen Penev

Date: Wed May 27 2026 - 18:25:33 EST


Currently, ath79 SoCs use the default ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN value of 128
bytes defined in mach-generic. This is excessive for these platforms
and leads to significant memory waste in kmalloc.

Override ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to use L1_CACHE_BYTES, which is 32 bytes for
ath79 SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ath79/kmalloc.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ath79/kmalloc.h

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ath79/kmalloc.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ath79/kmalloc.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..954f5d6e0dd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ath79/kmalloc.h
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __ASM_MACH_ATH79_KMALLOC_H
+#define __ASM_MACH_ATH79_KMALLOC_H
+
+#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
+
+#endif /* __ASM_MACH_ATH79_KMALLOC_H */
--
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