[PATCH v3 0/2] riscv: Reduce ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to 8

patchwork-bot+linux-riscv at kernel.org patchwork-bot+linux-riscv at kernel.org
Wed Aug 30 06:20:34 PDT 2023


Hello:

This series was applied to riscv/linux.git (for-next)
by Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>:

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:22:12 +0800 you wrote:
> Currently, riscv defines ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN as L1_CACHE_BYTES, I.E
> 64Bytes, if CONFIG_RISCV_DMA_NONCOHERENT=y. To support unified kernel
> Image, usually we have to enable CONFIG_RISCV_DMA_NONCOHERENT, thus
> it brings some bad effects to coherent platforms:
> 
> Firstly, it wastes memory, kmalloc-96, kmalloc-32, kmalloc-16 and
> kmalloc-8 slab caches don't exist any more, they are replaced with
> either kmalloc-128 or kmalloc-64.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v3,1/2] riscv: allow kmalloc() caches aligned to the smallest value
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/2926715163cf
  - [v3,2/2] riscv: enable DMA_BOUNCE_UNALIGNED_KMALLOC for !dma_coherent
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/f51f7a0fc2f4

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