[PATCH v6 06/17] drivers/gpu: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed May 31 08:48:25 PDT 2023


ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN represents the minimum (static) alignment for safe DMA
operations while ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is the minimum kmalloc() objects
alignment.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c
index 4cf214de50c4..3a5802f60e65 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_managed.c
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ struct drmres {
 	 * Some archs want to perform DMA into kmalloc caches
 	 * and need a guaranteed alignment larger than
 	 * the alignment of a 64-bit integer.
-	 * Thus we use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN here and get exactly the same
-	 * buffer alignment as if it was allocated by plain kmalloc().
+	 * Thus we use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN for data[] which will force the same
+	 * alignment for struct drmres when allocated by kmalloc().
 	 */
-	u8 __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN) data[];
+	u8 __aligned(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN) data[];
 };
 
 static void free_dr(struct drmres *dr)



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