[PATCH v2] dmaengine: edma: Align the memcpy acnt array size with the transfer

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at intel.com
Thu Sep 21 10:21:26 PDT 2017


On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:16:26AM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> Memory to Memory transfers does not have any special alignment needs
> regarding to acnt array size, but if one of the areas are in memory mapped
> regions (like PCIe memory), we need to make sure that the acnt array size
> is aligned with the mem copy parameters.
> 
> Before "dmaengine: edma: Optimize memcpy operation" change the memcpy was set
> up in a different way: acnt == number of bytes in a word based on
> __ffs((src | dest | len), bcnt and ccnt for looping the necessary number of
> words to comlete the trasnfer.
> 
> Instead of reverting the commit we can fix it to make sure that the ACNT size
> is aligned to the traswnfer.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod



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