Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751616AbdIOSyI (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:54:08 -0400 Received: from fllnx209.ext.ti.com ([198.47.19.16]:26406 "EHLO fllnx209.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751201AbdIOSyG (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:54:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: edma: Align the memcpy acnt array size with the transfer To: Greg KH CC: , , , , , , References: <20170915072328.7415-1-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> <20170915164707.GD27343@kroah.com> From: Peter Ujfalusi Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 21:52:36 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170915164707.GD27343@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-GB X-EXCLAIMER-MD-CONFIG: e1e8a2fd-e40a-4ac6-ac9b-f7e9cc9ee180 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id v8FIsDAn021219 Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 30  Texas Instruments Finland Oy, Porkkalankatu 22, 00180 Helsinki. Y-tunnus/Business ID: 0615521-4. Kotipaikka/Domicile: Helsinki On 09/15/2017 07:47 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:23:28AM +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote: >> Memory to Memory transfers does not have any special alignment needs >> regarding to acnt array size, but if one of the areas are in memory mapped >> regions (like PCIe memory), we need to make sure that the acnt array size >> is aligned with the mem copy parameters. >> >> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi >> --- >> drivers/dma/edma.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- >> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > stable kernel tree. Please read: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > for how to do this properly. > > Sorry, I forgot to add the CC to the patch itself. I will resend it with the correct form. -- Péter