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In accordance with [1] the DMA-able memory buffers must be
cacheline-aligned otherwise the cache writing-back and invalidation
performed during the mapping may cause the adjacent data being lost. It's
specifically required for the DMA-noncoherent platforms [2]. Seeing the
opal_dev.{cmd,resp} buffers are implicitly used for DMAs in the NVME and
SCSI/SD drivers in framework of the nvme_sec_submit() and sd_sec_submit()
methods respectively they must be cacheline-aligned to prevent the denoted
problem. One of the option to guarantee that is to kmalloc the buffers
[2]. Let's explicitly allocate them then instead of embedding into the
opal_dev structure instance.
Note this fix was inspired by the commit c94b7f9bab22 ("nvme-hwmon:
kmalloc the NVME SMART log buffer").
[1] Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst
[2] Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst
Fixes: 455a7b238cd6 ("block: Add Sed-opal library")
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107203944.31686-1-Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.