From: Alexey Brodkin <alexey.brod...@synopsys.com>

[ Upstream commit a66d972465d15b1d89281258805eb8b47d66bd36 ]

Initially we bumped into problem with 32-bit aligned atomic64_t
on ARC, see [1]. And then during quite lengthly discussion Peter Z.
mentioned ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN which IMHO makes perfect sense.
If allocation is done by plain kmalloc() obtained buffer will be
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN aligned and then why buffer obtained via
devm_kmalloc() should have any other alignment?

This way we at least get the same behavior for both types of
allocation.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-July/004009.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-snps-arc/2018-July/004036.html

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrod...@synopsys.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgu...@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <g...@kroah.com>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/base/devres.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index 71d577025285..e43a04a495a3 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -25,8 +25,14 @@ struct devres_node {
 
 struct devres {
        struct devres_node              node;
-       /* -- 3 pointers */
-       unsigned long long              data[]; /* guarantee ull alignment */
+       /*
+        * Some archs want to perform DMA into kmalloc caches
+        * and need a guaranteed alignment larger than
+        * the alignment of a 64-bit integer.
+        * Thus we use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN here and get exactly the same
+        * buffer alignment as if it was allocated by plain kmalloc().
+        */
+       u8 __aligned(ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN) data[];
 };
 
 struct devres_group {
-- 
2.20.1

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