PAPR specifies that DTL buffers can not cross AMS environments (aka CMO
in the PAPR) and can not cross a memory entitlement granule boundary
(4k). This is found in section 14.11.3.2 H_REGISTER_VPA of the PAPR.
kmalloc does not guarantee an alignment of the allocation, though,
beyond 8 bytes (at least in my understanding). Over-allocate and align
the resulting address. Tested both with and without AMS on a p7
partition.

---
Change from v1: removed extraneous #include.

Note, I initially put this in a firmware check if-block, but we have
also seen some issues with alignment with non-AMS partitions. The wasted
memory is unfortunate, though.

Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org

 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c 
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
index 0007241..a67be48 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c
@@ -293,14 +293,15 @@ static int alloc_dispatch_logs(void)
 
        for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
                pp = &paca[cpu];
-               dtl = kmalloc_node(DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL,
-                                  cpu_to_node(cpu));
+               dtl = kmalloc_node(DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES + DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES - 1,
+                                  GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
                if (!dtl) {
                        pr_warn("Failed to allocate dispatch trace log for cpu 
%d\n",
                                cpu);
                        pr_warn("Stolen time statistics will be unreliable\n");
                        break;
                }
+               dtl = PTR_ALIGN(dtl, DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES);
 
                pp->dtl_ridx = 0;
                pp->dispatch_log = dtl;
-- 
1.7.4.1

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