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authorJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2009-06-12 10:02:03 -0500
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2009-06-12 10:02:03 -0500
commit82681a318f9f028ea64e61f24bbd9ac535531921 (patch)
tree529b6a5b4fd040fb54b7672b1a224ebd47445876 /arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
parent3860c97bd60a4525bb62eb90e3e7d2f02662ac59 (diff)
parent8ebf975608aaebd7feb33d77f07ba21a6380e086 (diff)
[SCSI] Merge branch 'linus'
Conflicts: drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.c fixed up conflict between req->data_len accessors and mptsas driver updates. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
index cb7a9e97fd7..feaa75f0013 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -7,4 +7,20 @@
#define L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
#define L1_CACHE_BYTES (1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
+/*
+ * Memory returned by kmalloc() may be used for DMA, so we must make
+ * sure that all such allocations are cache aligned. Otherwise,
+ * unrelated code may cause parts of the buffer to be read into the
+ * cache before the transfer is done, causing old data to be seen by
+ * the CPU.
+ */
+#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN L1_CACHE_BYTES
+
+/*
+ * With EABI on ARMv5 and above we must have 64-bit aligned slab pointers.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_AEABI) && (__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 5)
+#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
+#endif
+
#endif