powerpc: set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN if CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE=y

Dale Farnsworth dale at farnsworth.org
Sat Mar 4 08:12:01 EST 2006


In article <20060303200928.GA29099 at xyzzy.farnsworth.org> you write:
> Ensure that buffers returned by kmalloc do not share a cache
> line with other data when doing non-cache-coherent I/O.

Eugene Surovegin points out that ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
doesn't work as avertised.

This patch doesn't work.

Thanks,
-Dale



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