Re: semaphore woes in 2.6, 32bit

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

>>>>> On Sun, 9 May 2004 18:48:35 +0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> 
>>>>> said:
>> Hmm, many drivers use kmalloc and pci_map_single for DMA buffer.
>> So ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN should be L1_CACHE_BYTES for non-coherent
>> system?

ralf> No, those drivers are simply broken.  dma_get_cache_alignment()
ralf> gives the mimimum alignment and width for DMA mappings and that
ralf> value is larger than kmalloc alignment in almost all cases.

I see.  Thank you for pointing out it.  I must learn 2.6 DMA API
quickly ...

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Atsushi Nemoto