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Date:   Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:53:43 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] crypto: Use ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN instead of
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On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:25:35AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 03:23:25PM -0700, Isaac Manjarres wrote:
> > isn't present. So, the current behavior that crypto is relying on
> > wouldn't change, so I agree with Catalin that we wouldn't be lying to
> > the compiler if we move forward with getting rid of kmalloc-192.
> 
> There is no guarantee that crypto will always be allocating
> structures > 128 bytes.
> 
> But thanks for the reminder, I do need to push the patches along.

So do I but holidays get in the way ;). I plan to refresh my kmalloc
minalign series at the end of August.

One significant change I have though is that now ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
now goes down all the way to 8 and using swiotlb bounce buffering if the
DMA mapping size is small.

-- 
Catalin