Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/exit.c

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
index cb7a9e97fd7..feaa75f0013 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -7,4 +7,20 @@
 #define L1_CACHE_SHIFT		5
 #define L1_CACHE_BYTES		(1 << L1_CACHE_SHIFT)
 
+/*
+ * Memory returned by kmalloc() may be used for DMA, so we must make
+ * sure that all such allocations are cache aligned. Otherwise,
+ * unrelated code may cause parts of the buffer to be read into the
+ * cache before the transfer is done, causing old data to be seen by
+ * the CPU.
+ */
+#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN	L1_CACHE_BYTES
+
+/*
+ * With EABI on ARMv5 and above we must have 64-bit aligned slab pointers.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_AEABI) && (__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 5)
+#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8
+#endif
+
 #endif