But in b44_init(), there is no device instances. ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Christoph Hellwig"<h...@lst.de>; Date: Fri, Nov 10, 2017 08:30 PM To: "Huacai Chen"<che...@lemote.com>; Cc: "Christoph Hellwig"<h...@lst.de>; "Marek Szyprowski"<m.szyprow...@samsung.com>; "Robin Murphy"<robin.mur...@arm.com>; "Andrew Morton"<a...@linux-foundation.org>; "Fuxin Zhang"<zhan...@lemote.com>; "linux-kernel"<linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org>; "Ralf Baechle"<r...@linux-mips.org>; "James Hogan"<james.ho...@imgtec.com>; "linux-mips"<linux-m...@linux-mips.org>; "James E . J . Bottomley"<j...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; "Martin K . Petersen"<martin.peter...@oracle.com>; "linux-scsi"<linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>; "stable"<sta...@vger.kernel.org>; "Michael S . Tsirkin"<m...@redhat.com>; "Pawel Osciak"<pa...@osciak.com>; "Kyungmin Park"<kyungmin.p...@samsung.com>; "Michael Chan"<michael.c...@broadcom.com>; "Benjamin Herrenschmidt"<b...@kernel.crashing.org>; "Ivan Mikhaylov"<i...@ru.ibm.com>; "Tariq Toukan"<tar...@mellanox.com>; "Andy Gross"<agr...@codeaurora.org>; "Mark A . Greer"<mgr...@animalcreek.com>; "Robert Baldyga"<r.bald...@hackerion.com>; Subject: Re: [PATCH V9 1/4] dma-mapping: Rework dma_get_cache_alignment()
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c > b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c > index a1125d1..2f6ffe5 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/b44.c > @@ -2344,6 +2344,10 @@ static int b44_init_one(struct ssb_device *sdev, > struct net_device *dev; > struct b44 *bp; > int err; > + unsigned int dma_desc_align_size = > dma_get_cache_alignment(sdev->dma_dev); > + > + /* Setup paramaters for syncing RX/TX DMA descriptors */ > + dma_desc_sync_size = max_t(unsigned int, dma_desc_align_size, > sizeof(struct dma_desc)); > > instance++; > > @@ -2587,12 +2591,8 @@ static inline void b44_pci_exit(void) > > static int __init b44_init(void) > { > - unsigned int dma_desc_align_size = dma_get_cache_alignment(); > int err; > > - /* Setup paramaters for syncing RX/TX DMA descriptors */ > - dma_desc_sync_size = max_t(unsigned int, dma_desc_align_size, > sizeof(struct dma_desc)); > - This looks wrong - you override a global variable for each probed device.