spi: Guarantee cacheline alignment of driver-private data

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__spi_alloc_controller() uses a single allocation to accommodate struct
spi_controller and the driver-private data, but places the latter behind
the former.  This order does not guarantee cacheline alignment of the
driver-private data.  (It does guarantee cacheline alignment of struct
spi_controller but the structure doesn't make any use of that property.)

Round up struct spi_controller to cacheline size.  A forthcoming commit
leverages this to grant DMA access to driver-private data of the BCM2835
SPI master.

An alternative, less economical approach would be to use two allocations.

A third approach consists of reversing the order to conserve memory.
But Mark Brown is concerned that it may result in a performance penalty
on architectures that don't like unaligned accesses.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/01625b9b26b93417fb09d2c15ad02dfe9cdbbbe5.1568187525.git.lukas@wunner.de
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

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Lukas Wunner 2019-09-11 12:15:30 +02:00 • committed by Mark Brown

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