Re: [PATCH v6 7/9] dma-buf: system_heap: Enforce shared-granule alignment for cc-shared buffers

From: Aneesh Kumar K . V

Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 03:04:03 EST


Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> writes:

> First, none of the DMA-BUF maintainers have been cc'ed. It might be fine
> for an RFC but this series got to version 6. We need their feedback.
>
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 04:04:50PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm) wrote:
>> The system heap can allocate buffers that are decrypted and shared with the

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> You need to get a proper base so that Sashiko can review this series. I
> ran it through Claude and the above is wrong to go to free_buffer which
> walks over the pages list that has not been initialised yet.
>

There is a dependency on the file-movement changes in the arm-smccc bus
patch series. This was done because we agreed to move the RSI changes
out of arch/arm64 before considering further CCA-related changes for
merging.

Do you have any suggestions on how to handle this? I could include the
dependent patches when posting the new series so that Sashiko has a base
on which to apply it, and clearly mark those patches as not for merging.

-aneesh