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From: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@iki•fi>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum•org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail•com>,
	linux-usb@vger•kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: hcd: warn about URB buffers that are not DMA aligned and are about to be DMA mapped
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:35:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BD94F5.2060803@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6777683.xBFsv58ruI@linux-5eaq.site>

On 16.06.2013 11:21, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> On Saturday 15 June 2013 16:22:30 Jussi Kivilinna wrote:
> 
>> Hm.. rethink this a bit.
>>
>> Transfer buffer might be dma aligned but shorter than cacheline and end of cacheline
>> used as something else. Manual alignment by host driver does not catch that
>> or fix that.
>> So, yes.. dma mapping should work with unaligned buffers, but maybe the actual
>> problem is multiple buffers from same cacheline.
> 
> The buffers kmalloc() returns are OK in that regard. A driver that uses
> a buffer for anything but buffering is buggy.

Ok, I'll look at that direction. Thanks.

-Jussi

> 
> 	Regards
> 		Oliver
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-16 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20130614133803.25747.98705.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKagILUCTcTcHdKyNwTtLsGr@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-15  7:41   ` [RFC PATCH] usb: hcd: warn about URB buffers that are not DMA aligned and are about to be DMA mapped Ming Lei
2013-06-15 10:19     ` Jussi Kivilinna
     [not found]       ` <51BC3F9E.3010605-X3B1VOXEql0@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-15 12:07         ` Ming Lei
     [not found]           ` <CACVXFVMe9fgdiDTRC0rWvwZJM8aT7AZY8Q1MwiOTc4ks0PQPOg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-15 13:10             ` Jussi Kivilinna
2013-06-15 13:22               ` Jussi Kivilinna
     [not found]                 ` <51BC6A96.7030707-X3B1VOXEql0@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-16  8:21                   ` Oliver Neukum
2013-06-16 10:35                     ` Jussi Kivilinna [this message]
2013-06-28 12:39                       ` Jussi Kivilinna
2013-06-28 12:58                         ` Oliver Neukum
2013-06-15 13:47               ` Ming Lei
2013-06-16 10:34                 ` Jussi Kivilinna

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