Re: Question about cacheline aligned memory for DMA transfers

[Clemens Ladisch]

Johannes Thoma wrote:
> Does kmalloc return only memory that is cache line aligned?

Yes.

> do all architectures handle cache line misalign ed dma accesses
> correctly?

x86 does.  Most other architectures do not have DMA-coherent caches.


Regards,
Clemens
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