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Aligning to the L1 cache does not guarantee the same alignment as
kmallocing an object [1]. Furthermore, in some platforms, that
alignment is not sufficient for DMA safety (in case someone wants
to have a DMA safe buffer in privdata) [2].

Sometime ago, we had the same fixes in IIO.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/base/devres.c#n35
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20220508175712.647246-2-jic23@kernel.org/

Fixes: c18e2760

 ("counter: Provide alternative counter registration functions")
Signed-off-by: Nuno Sa <nuno.sa@analog.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209-counter-align-fix-v2-1-5777ea0a2722@analog.com

Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@linaro.org>