From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 17:10:38 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: arm64: mm: define NET_IP_ALIGN to 0
X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.0.0-8.9~1216^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=26a4676faa1ad5d99317e0cd701e5d6f3e716b77;p=mirror_ubuntu-disco-kernel.git

arm64: mm: define NET_IP_ALIGN to 0

On arm64, there is no need to add 2 bytes of padding to the start of
each network buffer just to make the IP header appear 32-bit aligned.

Since this might actually adversely affect DMA performance some
platforms, let's override NET_IP_ALIGN to 0 to get rid of this
padding.

Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
index 3e2091708b8e..6b0d4dff5012 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@
 #define KERNEL_DS	UL(-1)
 #define USER_DS		(TASK_SIZE_64 - 1)
 
+/*
+ * On arm64 systems, unaligned accesses by the CPU are cheap, and so there is
+ * no point in shifting all network buffers by 2 bytes just to make some IP
+ * header fields appear aligned in memory, potentially sacrificing some DMA
+ * performance on some platforms.
+ */
+#define NET_IP_ALIGN	0
+
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 #ifdef __KERNEL__