Re: [PATCH] riscv: add ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN support

From: Xianting TIan
Date: Mon Aug 09 2021 - 02:20:17 EST



在 2021/8/9 上午12:30, Jisheng Zhang 写道:
On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 22:55:37 +0800
Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Introduce ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to riscv arch.

Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/cache.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cache.h
index 9b58b1045..2945bbe2b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
#define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
+#define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
It's not a good idea to blindly set this for all riscv. For "coherent"
platforms, this is not necessary and will waste memory.

I checked ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN definition,  "If an architecture isn't fully DMA-coherent, ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN must be set".

so that the memory allocator makes sure that kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't share a cache line with the others.

Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst

2) ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN

   Architectures must ensure that kmalloc'ed buffer is
   DMA-safe. Drivers and subsystems depend on it. If an architecture
   isn't fully DMA-coherent (i.e. hardware doesn't ensure that data in
   the CPU cache is identical to data in main memory),
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator
   makes sure that kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't share a cache line with
   the others. See arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h as an example.

   Note that ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment
   constraints. You don't need to worry about the architecture data
   alignment constraints (e.g. the alignment constraints about 64-bit
   objects).


+
/*
* RISC-V requires the stack pointer to be 16-byte aligned, so ensure that
* the flat loader aligns it accordingly.