[PATCH net-next] net: ibm: emac: Clear MAL descriptors without memset

[Rosen Penev]

Clear MAL descriptor rings with explicit field stores instead of
memset().  The descriptor rings are carved from MAL coherent DMA memory,
which may be mapped uncached on 32-bit powerpc.  The optimized memset()
path can use dcbz there and trigger an alignment warning.

The skb tracking arrays remain ordinary CPU memory and still use memset().

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.5
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
index 1fd7cb50c568..7ab5c944f5de 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
@@ -1161,6 +1161,17 @@ static void emac_clean_rx_ring(struct emac_instance *dev)
 	}
 }
 
+static void emac_clear_mal_desc(struct mal_descriptor *desc, int count)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+		desc[i].ctrl = 0;
+		desc[i].data_len = 0;
+		desc[i].data_ptr = 0;
+	}
+}
+
 static int
 __emac_prepare_rx_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct emac_instance *dev, int slot)
 {
@@ -3121,8 +3132,8 @@ static int emac_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
 	DBG(dev, "rx_desc %p" NL, dev->rx_desc);
 
 	/* Clean rings */
-	memset(dev->tx_desc, 0, NUM_TX_BUFF * sizeof(struct mal_descriptor));
-	memset(dev->rx_desc, 0, NUM_RX_BUFF * sizeof(struct mal_descriptor));
+	emac_clear_mal_desc(dev->tx_desc, NUM_TX_BUFF);
+	emac_clear_mal_desc(dev->rx_desc, NUM_RX_BUFF);
 	memset(dev->tx_skb, 0, NUM_TX_BUFF * sizeof(struct sk_buff *));
 	memset(dev->rx_skb, 0, NUM_RX_BUFF * sizeof(struct sk_buff *));
 
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