On 7/10/07, Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:
The only remaining known bug is arguably a problem in nommu that SLOB shouldn't be papering over.
I've got another one for you: SLOB ignores ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN so using SLOB in combination with DMA and non-coherent architectures causes data corruption. That said, there are currently very few architectures that define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN, so I guess it might be something I'm doing wrong on avr32. But I'd really like to know how other non-coherent architectures handle DMA to buffers sharing cachelines with unrelated data... Håvard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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