Re: kmalloc issue on MIPS target

[naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>]

Hi Ralf,

I understand that that I need to make kmalloc.h in my arch specific
folder. But I could not get answer, what should be appropriate
value of  ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN  is it 32 or 128 ?


Thanks.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> 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
>