> I've been debugging various issues on the PowerPC 44x embedded
> architecture which happens to have non-coherent PCI DMA.
>
> One of the problem I'm hitting is that one really need to enforce
> kmalloc alignement to cache lines or bad things will happen (among
> others with USB), for some reasons, powerpc failed to do so, I fixed it.
Heh... I hit the same problem literally 5 years ago:
http://lwn.net/Articles/1783/
I implemented the __dma_buffer annotation:
http://lwn.net/Articles/2269/
But DaveM said we should just use the PCI pool code instead:
http://lwn.net/Articles/2270/
- R.
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