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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index 3c4e07123e59..d568bc235bc0 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -738,17 +738,17 @@ to "Closing". CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH if the architecture supports IOMMUs (including software IOMMU). -2) ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN +2) ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN Architectures must ensure that kmalloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe. Drivers and subsystems depend on it. If an architecture isn't fully DMA-coherent (i.e. hardware doesn't ensure that data in the CPU cache is identical to data in main memory), - ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator + ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator makes sure that kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't share a cache line with the others. See arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h as an example. - Note that ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment + Note that ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment constraints. You don't need to worry about the architecture data alignment constraints (e.g. the alignment constraints about 64-bit objects). |