Re: kmalloc issue on MIPS target

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:56:16PM +0530, naveen yadav wrote:

> I will give more info.
> 
> CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
> 
> CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT=y
> 
> mips 34kc is processor
> 
> and File we are using is  arch/mips/include/asm/mach-generic/kmalloc.h
> 
> #ifndef __ASM_MACH_GENERIC_KMALLOC_H
> #define __ASM_MACH_GENERIC_KMALLOC_H
> 
> 
> #ifndef CONFIG_DMA_COHERENT
> /*
>  * Total overkill for most systems but need as a safe default.
>  * Set this one if any device in the system might do non-coherent DMA.
>  */
> #define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN   128
> #endif
> 
> #endif /* __ASM_MACH_GENERIC_KMALLOC_H */
> 
> 
> So shall we make value ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN   from 128 to 32. is
> there any problem ?

No, that's just what you should do.  You do that by putting a file
that defines ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN into your platforms's
arch/mips/include/asm/mach-<yourplatform>/kmalloc.h just like the ip32
file from your original posting.

  Ralf