* The macro CRYPTO_MINALIGN_ATTR (along with the void * type in the actual
* declaration) is used to ensure that the crypto_tfm context structure is
* aligned correctly for the given architecture so that there are no alignment
- * faults for C data types. In particular, this is required on platforms such
- * as arm where pointers are 32-bit aligned but there are data types such as
- * u64 which require 64-bit alignment.
+ * faults for C data types. On architectures that support non-cache coherent
+ * DMA, such as ARM or arm64, it also takes into account the minimal alignment
+ * that is required to ensure that the context struct member does not share any
+ * cachelines with the rest of the struct. This is needed to ensure that cache
+ * maintenance for non-coherent DMA (cache invalidation in particular) does not
+ * affect data that may be accessed by the CPU concurrently.
*/
#define CRYPTO_MINALIGN ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN