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ARM: mvebu: I/O coherency related fixes

PATCH Superseded Thomas Petazzoni 4 participants 15 messages Jan 16, 2015 – May 28, 2015

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v2 cover ARM: mvebu: I/O coherency related fixes

Arnd, Andrew,

As we discussed, here is a set of 3 patches related to HW I/O coherency on mvebu:

* The first patch disables HW I/O coherency entirely, and is meant to be backported to stable, until we do enough testing of the new HW I/O coherency stuff and backport it to stabel.

* The last two patches add the new HW I/O coherency strategy based on automatic I/O synchronization barriers, and obviously re-enable the HW I/O coherency.

I'd like all three patches to be merged for 3.20. The first patch will be backported to stable right now, and we will continue to do more testing around HW I/O coherency in 3.20 to validate that we have reached a proper solution.

Special thanks to Simon Guinot who did quite a bit of testing of the automatic I/O synchronization barriers, and to Arnd for all the discussions related to this topic.

Thanks,

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni (3):
ARM: mvebu: completely disable hardware I/O coherency
bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers
ARM: mvebu: use arm_coherent_dma_ops and re-enable hardware I/O
coherency

 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 56 ++++++-----------------------------------
 drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c        | 17 ++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
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#1 lore raw

PATCH v2 1/3 ARM: mvebu: completely disable hardware I/O coherency

The current hardware I/O coherency is known to cause problems with DMA coherent buffers, as it still requires explicit I/O synchronization barriers, which is not compatible with the semantics expected by the Linux DMA coherent buffers API.

So, in order to have enough time to validate a new solution based on automatic I/O synchronization barriers, this commit disables hardware I/O coherency entirely. Future patches will re-enable it.

---
Due to the coherent mapping problem, the I/O coherency has in fact been broken since its introduction, which is why we request the backport of this patch all the way up to 3.8.

---
 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c +6 -1
index 3585cb3..caa21e9 100644
@@ -246,9 +246,14 @@ static int coherency_type(void)
 	return type;
 }
 
+/*
+ * As a precaution, we currently completely disable hardware I/O
+ * coherency, until enough testing is done with automatic I/O
+ * synchronization barriers to validate that it is a proper solution.
+ */
 int coherency_available(void)
 {
-	return coherency_type() != COHERENCY_FABRIC_TYPE_NONE;
+	return false;
 }
 
 int __init coherency_init(void)
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#2 lore raw

PATCH v2 2/3 bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers

In reply to Thomas Petazzoni

Instead of using explicit I/O synchronization barriers shoehorned inside the streaming DMA mappings API (in arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c), we are switching to use automatic I/O synchronization barrier.

The primary motivation for this change is that explicit I/O synchronization barriers are not only needed for streaming DMA mappings (which can easily be done by overriding the dma_map_ops), but also for coherent DMA mappings (which is a lot less easy to do, since the kernel assumes such mappings are coherent and don't require any sort of cache maintenance operation to ensure the consistency of the buffers).

Switching to automatic I/O synchronization barriers will also allow us to use the existing arm_coherent_dma_ops instead of our custom arm_dma_ops.

In order to use automatic I/O synchronization barriers, this commit changes mvebu-mbus in two ways:

- It enables automatic I/O synchronization barriers in the 0x84 register of the MBus bridge, by enabling such barriers for all MBus units. This enables automatic barriers for the on-SoC peripherals that are doing DMA.

- It enables the SyncEnable bit in the MBus windows, so that PCIe devices also use automatic I/O synchronization barrier.

This automatic synchronization barrier relies on the assumption that at least one register of a given hardware unit is read before the driver accesses the DMA mappings modified by this unit. This assumption is guaranteed for PCI devices by vertue of the PCI standard, and we can reasonably verify that this assumption is also true for the limited number of platform drivers doing DMA used on Marvell EBU platforms.

---
 drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c +14 -3
index eb7682d..398f0ee 100644
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
  */
 #define WIN_CTRL_OFF		0x0000
 #define   WIN_CTRL_ENABLE       BIT(0)
+#define   WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER  BIT(1)
 #define   WIN_CTRL_TGT_MASK     0xf0
 #define   WIN_CTRL_TGT_SHIFT    4
 #define   WIN_CTRL_ATTR_MASK    0xff00
@@ -82,6 +83,9 @@
 #define   WIN_REMAP_LOW         0xffff0000
 #define WIN_REMAP_HI_OFF	0x000c
 
+#define UNIT_SYNC_BARRIER_OFF   0x84
+#define   UNIT_SYNC_BARRIER_ALL 0xFFFF
+
 #define ATTR_HW_COHERENCY	(0x1 << 4)
 
 #define DDR_BASE_CS_OFF(n)	(0x0000 + ((n) << 3))
@@ -303,6 +307,7 @@ static int mvebu_mbus_setup_window(struct mvebu_mbus_state *mbus,
 	ctrl = ((size - 1) & WIN_CTRL_SIZE_MASK) |
 		(attr << WIN_CTRL_ATTR_SHIFT)    |
 		(target << WIN_CTRL_TGT_SHIFT)   |
+		WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER             |
 		WIN_CTRL_ENABLE;
 
 	writel(base & WIN_BASE_LOW, addr + WIN_BASE_OFF);
@@ -844,7 +849,8 @@ static int __init mvebu_mbus_common_init(struct mvebu_mbus_state *mbus,
 					 phys_addr_t sdramwins_phys_base,
 					 size_t sdramwins_size,
 					 phys_addr_t mbusbridge_phys_base,
-					 size_t mbusbridge_size)
+					 size_t mbusbridge_size,
+					 bool is_coherent)
 {
 	int win;
 
@@ -876,6 +882,10 @@ static int __init mvebu_mbus_common_init(struct mvebu_mbus_state *mbus,
 
 	mbus->soc->setup_cpu_target(mbus);
 
+	if (is_coherent)
+		writel(UNIT_SYNC_BARRIER_ALL,
+		       mbus->mbuswins_base + UNIT_SYNC_BARRIER_OFF);
+
 	register_syscore_ops(&mvebu_mbus_syscore_ops);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -903,7 +913,7 @@ int __init mvebu_mbus_init(const char *soc, phys_addr_t mbuswins_phys_base,
 			mbuswins_phys_base,
 			mbuswins_size,
 			sdramwins_phys_base,
-			sdramwins_size, 0, 0);
+			sdramwins_size, 0, 0, false);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF
@@ -1105,7 +1115,8 @@ int __init mvebu_mbus_dt_init(bool is_coherent)
 				     sdramwins_res.start,
 				     resource_size(&sdramwins_res),
 				     mbusbridge_res.start,
-				     resource_size(&mbusbridge_res));
+				     resource_size(&mbusbridge_res),
+				     is_coherent);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
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#3 lore raw

PATCH v2 2/3 bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers

Quoted 4 lines · Thomas Petazzoni

Instead of using explicit I/O synchronization barriers shoehorned inside the streaming DMA mappings API (in arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c), we are switching to use automatic I/O synchronization barrier.

Hello Thomas,

I'm affraid this patche causes issue on mv88f6282 (and most probably on mv88f6281 as well): see below.

[...]

drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c line 72

Quoted 9 lines
drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c +1 -0
index eb7682d..398f0ee 100644
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
  */
 #define WIN_CTRL_OFF		0x0000
 #define   WIN_CTRL_ENABLE       BIT(0)
+#define   WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER  BIT(1)

In the 88f6282 datasheet this bit in the "WindowX Control Register" is documented as reserved on all windows but window 6 and 7.

For windows 6 and 7 this bit is documented to write protect the window when set.

In our configuration, this window gets chosen for the PCI memory accesses (target 0x4, attribute 0xe8) and we effectively end up only being able to read from the PCI devices (mwl8k fails to load the firmware and sky2 timeouts on MDIO accesses). Write accesses are silently discarded (no external aborts of any kind), but that's probably expected as the AHB error propagation is disabled.

Reverting this patch made all the PCI device work correctly.

Regards,

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Freebox SAS
#4 lore raw

PATCH v2 2/3 bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers

Dear Nicolas Schichan,

Quoted 20 lines · Nicolas Schichan

I'm affraid this patche causes issue on mv88f6282 (and most probably on mv88f6281 as well): see below.

[...]

drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c line 72

Quoted 9 lines
drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c +1 -0
index eb7682d..398f0ee 100644
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
  */
 #define WIN_CTRL_OFF		0x0000
 #define   WIN_CTRL_ENABLE       BIT(0)
+#define   WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER  BIT(1)

In the 88f6282 datasheet this bit in the "WindowX Control Register" is documented as reserved on all windows but window 6 and 7.

For windows 6 and 7 this bit is documented to write protect the window when set.

Quoted 7 lines

In our configuration, this window gets chosen for the PCI memory accesses (target 0x4, attribute 0xe8) and we effectively end up only being able to read from the PCI devices (mwl8k fails to load the firmware and sky2 timeouts on MDIO accesses). Write accesses are silently discarded (no external aborts of any kind), but that's probably expected as the AHB error propagation is disabled.

Reverting this patch made all the PCI device work correctly.

Ah, thanks a lot for the bug report. I'll cook a fix for this problem, and Cc: you when submitting.

Thanks again!

Thomas

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#5 lore raw

RFC PATCH 1/1 bus: mvebu-mbus: do not set WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER on non io-coherent platforms.

On those platforms (orion5x, kirkwood and dove AFAICS) the WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER bit in the window control register is either reserved (all windows except 6 and 7) or enables read-only protection (windows 6 and 7).

---

Hello Thomas,

Please find here my attempt at fixing this. I have been relying on the hw_io_coherency field of the struct mvebu_mbus_state which is always false for the platforms without the WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER bit available (orion5x, kirkwood, and dove).

I was going to add a field to mvebu_soc_data documenting the availability of the WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER bit for each platform but for that purpose, the mvebu_mbus_state struct hw_io_coherency field looks to be enough.

This has been tested on mv88f6282 (kirkwood).

Regards,

 drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c +2 -1
index fb9ec62..019a033 100644
@@ -323,8 +323,9 @@ static int mvebu_mbus_setup_window(struct mvebu_mbus_state *mbus,
 	ctrl = ((size - 1) & WIN_CTRL_SIZE_MASK) |
 		(attr << WIN_CTRL_ATTR_SHIFT)    |
 		(target << WIN_CTRL_TGT_SHIFT)   |
-		WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER             |
 		WIN_CTRL_ENABLE;
+	if (mbus->hw_io_coherency)
+		ctrl |= WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER;
 
 	writel(base & WIN_BASE_LOW, addr + WIN_BASE_OFF);
 	writel(ctrl, addr + WIN_CTRL_OFF);
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#6 lore raw

RFC PATCH 1/1 bus: mvebu-mbus: do not set WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER on non io-coherent platforms.

Dear Nicolas Schichan,

Quoted 15 lines · Nicolas Schichan

On those platforms (orion5x, kirkwood and dove AFAICS) the WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER bit in the window control register is either reserved (all windows except 6 and 7) or enables read-only protection (windows 6 and 7).

---

Hello Thomas,

Please find here my attempt at fixing this. I have been relying on the hw_io_coherency field of the struct mvebu_mbus_state which is always false for the platforms without the WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER bit available (orion5x, kirkwood, and dove).

Quoted 6 lines

I was going to add a field to mvebu_soc_data documenting the availability of the WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER bit for each platform but for that purpose, the mvebu_mbus_state struct hw_io_coherency field looks to be enough.

This has been tested on mv88f6282 (kirkwood).

Thanks, it looks good to me. Can you resend with:

Cc <[email protected]> # v4.0+
Fixes a0b5cd4ac2d6 ("bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers")

An addition to the commit log like:

Commit a0b5cd4ac2d6 ("bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers") enabled the usage of automatic I/O synchronization barriers by enabling bit WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER in the control registers of MBus windows, but....

And in the code, maybe add a comment above the WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER definition like:

/* Only on HW I/O coherency capable platforms */
#define WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER ...

Thanks a lot!

Thomas

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#7 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 bus: mvebu-mbus: do not set WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER on non io-coherent platforms.

In reply to Thomas Petazzoni

Commit a0b5cd4ac2d6 ("bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers") enabled the usage of automatic I/O synchronization barriers by enabling bit WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER in the control registers of MBus windows, but on non io-coherent platforms (orion5x, kirkwood and dove) the WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER bit in the window control register is either reserved (all windows except 6 and 7) or enables read-only protection (windows 6 and 7).

Cc <[email protected]> # v4.0+
Fixes a0b5cd4ac2d6 ("bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers")
---
 drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c +3 -1
index fb9ec62..7fa4510 100644
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
  */
 #define WIN_CTRL_OFF		0x0000
 #define   WIN_CTRL_ENABLE       BIT(0)
+/* Only on HW I/O coherency capable platforms */
 #define   WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER  BIT(1)
 #define   WIN_CTRL_TGT_MASK     0xf0
 #define   WIN_CTRL_TGT_SHIFT    4
@@ -323,8 +324,9 @@ static int mvebu_mbus_setup_window(struct mvebu_mbus_state *mbus,
 	ctrl = ((size - 1) & WIN_CTRL_SIZE_MASK) |
 		(attr << WIN_CTRL_ATTR_SHIFT)    |
 		(target << WIN_CTRL_TGT_SHIFT)   |
-		WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER             |
 		WIN_CTRL_ENABLE;
+	if (mbus->hw_io_coherency)
+		ctrl |= WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER;
 
 	writel(base & WIN_BASE_LOW, addr + WIN_BASE_OFF);
 	writel(ctrl, addr + WIN_CTRL_OFF);
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#8 lore raw

PATCH v2 2/3 bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers

In reply to Nicolas Schichan

Hi,

Quoted 10 lines · Nicolas Schichan
Quoted 4 lines · Thomas Petazzoni

Instead of using explicit I/O synchronization barriers shoehorned inside the streaming DMA mappings API (in arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c), we are switching to use automatic I/O synchronization barrier.

Hello Thomas,

I'm affraid this patche causes issue on mv88f6282 (and most probably on mv88f6281 as well): see below.

Is this issue already fixed in 4.1-rc5?

I just noticed that on mvebu/openrd-client the built-in PCI XGI framebuffer stopped working somewhere between 3.19 and 4.0, and I bisected it to this commit. The issue is also present in 4.1-rc5 and reverting this commit makes the display to work again.

A.

Quoted 35 lines

[...]

drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c line 72

Quoted 9 lines
drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c +1 -0
index eb7682d..398f0ee 100644
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
  */
 #define WIN_CTRL_OFF		0x0000
 #define   WIN_CTRL_ENABLE       BIT(0)
+#define   WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER  BIT(1)

In the 88f6282 datasheet this bit in the "WindowX Control Register" is documented as reserved on all windows but window 6 and 7.

For windows 6 and 7 this bit is documented to write protect the window when set.

In our configuration, this window gets chosen for the PCI memory accesses (target 0x4, attribute 0xe8) and we effectively end up only being able to read from the PCI devices (mwl8k fails to load the firmware and sky2 timeouts on MDIO accesses). Write accesses are silently discarded (no external aborts of any kind), but that's probably expected as the AHB error propagation is disabled.

Reverting this patch made all the PCI device work correctly.

Regards,

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#9 lore raw

PATCH v2 2/3 bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers

Dear Aaro Koskinen,

Quoted 7 lines · Aaro Koskinen
Quoted 6 lines · Nicolas Schichan
Quoted 4 lines · Thomas Petazzoni

Instead of using explicit I/O synchronization barriers shoehorned inside the streaming DMA mappings API (in arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c), we are switching to use automatic I/O synchronization barrier.

Quoted 6 lines
Quoted 4 lines

Hello Thomas,

I'm affraid this patche causes issue on mv88f6282 (and most probably on mv88f6281 as well): see below.

Is this issue already fixed in 4.1-rc5?

No. I just resent the patch from Nicolas earlier today, he has been merged by one of the mvebu maintainer, and he will send a pull request for it. So it should be part of the final 4.1, and the patch is also marked for stable, so it will be backported to 4.0.x as well.

Best regards,

Thomas

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#10 lore raw

PATCH v2 3/3 ARM: mvebu: use arm_coherent_dma_ops and re-enable hardware I/O coherency

In reply to Thomas Petazzoni

Now that we have enabled automatic I/O synchronization barriers, we no longer need any explicit barriers. We can therefore simplify arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c by using the existing arm_coherent_dma_ops instead of our custom mvebu_hwcc_dma_ops, and re-enable hardware I/O coherency support.

---
 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 53 +++--------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c +3 -50
index caa21e9..5e7df71 100644
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <asm/smp_plat.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/mach/map.h>
+#include <asm/dma-mapping.h>
 #include "coherency.h"
 #include "mvebu-soc-id.h"
 
@@ -76,54 +77,6 @@ int set_cpu_coherent(void)
 	return ll_enable_coherency();
 }
 
-static inline void mvebu_hwcc_sync_io_barrier(void)
-{
-	writel(0x1, coherency_cpu_base + IO_SYNC_BARRIER_CTL_OFFSET);
-	while (readl(coherency_cpu_base + IO_SYNC_BARRIER_CTL_OFFSET) & 0x1);
-}
-
-static dma_addr_t mvebu_hwcc_dma_map_page(struct device *dev, struct page *page,
-				  unsigned long offset, size_t size,
-				  enum dma_data_direction dir,
-				  struct dma_attrs *attrs)
-{
-	if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE)
-		mvebu_hwcc_sync_io_barrier();
-	return pfn_to_dma(dev, page_to_pfn(page)) + offset;
-}
-
-
-static void mvebu_hwcc_dma_unmap_page(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
-			      size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
-			      struct dma_attrs *attrs)
-{
-	if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE)
-		mvebu_hwcc_sync_io_barrier();
-}
-
-static void mvebu_hwcc_dma_sync(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
-			size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir)
-{
-	if (dir != DMA_TO_DEVICE)
-		mvebu_hwcc_sync_io_barrier();
-}
-
-static struct dma_map_ops mvebu_hwcc_dma_ops = {
-	.alloc			= arm_dma_alloc,
-	.free			= arm_dma_free,
-	.mmap			= arm_dma_mmap,
-	.map_page		= mvebu_hwcc_dma_map_page,
-	.unmap_page		= mvebu_hwcc_dma_unmap_page,
-	.get_sgtable		= arm_dma_get_sgtable,
-	.map_sg			= arm_dma_map_sg,
-	.unmap_sg		= arm_dma_unmap_sg,
-	.sync_single_for_cpu	= mvebu_hwcc_dma_sync,
-	.sync_single_for_device	= mvebu_hwcc_dma_sync,
-	.sync_sg_for_cpu	= arm_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu,
-	.sync_sg_for_device	= arm_dma_sync_sg_for_device,
-	.set_dma_mask		= arm_dma_set_mask,
-};
-
 static int mvebu_hwcc_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
 			       unsigned long event, void *__dev)
 {
@@ -131,7 +84,7 @@ static int mvebu_hwcc_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
 
 	if (event != BUS_NOTIFY_ADD_DEVICE)
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
-	set_dma_ops(dev, &mvebu_hwcc_dma_ops);
+	set_dma_ops(dev, &arm_coherent_dma_ops);
 
 	return NOTIFY_OK;
 }
@@ -253,7 +206,7 @@ static int coherency_type(void)
  */
 int coherency_available(void)
 {
-	return false;
+	return coherency_type() != COHERENCY_FABRIC_TYPE_NONE;
 }
 
 int __init coherency_init(void)
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#11 lore raw

PATCH v2 3/3 ARM: mvebu: use arm_coherent_dma_ops and re-enable hardware I/O coherency

Hi Thomas

In patch 1/3 you add a comment here saying why you have turned it off. This hunk turns it back on again. But i don't see the comment being removed?

Thanks
Andrew

Quoted 12 lines
arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c +1 -1
@@ -253,7 +206,7 @@ static int coherency_type(void)
  */
 int coherency_available(void)
 {
-	return false;
+	return coherency_type() != COHERENCY_FABRIC_TYPE_NONE;
 }
 
 int __init coherency_init(void)
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#12 lore raw

PATCH v2 3/3 ARM: mvebu: use arm_coherent_dma_ops and re-enable hardware I/O coherency

Dear Andrew Lunn,

Quoted 3 lines · Andrew Lunn

In patch 1/3 you add a comment here saying why you have turned it off. This hunk turns it back on again. But i don't see the comment being removed?

Stupid mistake, indeed :-/

Do you want a v3, or can you kill the comment when applying the patch?

Thanks, and sorry about this,

Thomas

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#13 lore raw

v2 cover ARM: mvebu: I/O coherency related fixes

In reply to Thomas Petazzoni
Quoted 8 lines · Thomas Petazzoni

Arnd, Andrew,

As we discussed, here is a set of 3 patches related to HW I/O coherency on mvebu:

* The first patch disables HW I/O coherency entirely, and is meant to be backported to stable, until we do enough testing of the new HW I/O coherency stuff and backport it to stabel.

Added to mvebu/fixes-3

Quoted 4 lines

* The last two patches add the new HW I/O coherency strategy based on automatic I/O synchronization barriers, and obviously re-enable the HW I/O coherency.

Added to mvebu/sox. I also removed the comment you forgot to removed in 3/3.

Andrew

#14 lore raw

v2 cover ARM: mvebu: I/O coherency related fixes

Dear Andrew Lunn,

Quoted 13 lines · Andrew Lunn
Quoted 8 lines · Thomas Petazzoni

Arnd, Andrew,

As we discussed, here is a set of 3 patches related to HW I/O coherency on mvebu:

* The first patch disables HW I/O coherency entirely, and is meant to be backported to stable, until we do enough testing of the new HW I/O coherency stuff and backport it to stabel.

Added to mvebu/fixes-3

Quoted 1 line
Quoted 6 lines
Quoted 3 lines

* The last two patches add the new HW I/O coherency strategy based on automatic I/O synchronization barriers, and obviously re-enable the HW I/O coherency.

Added to mvebu/sox. I also removed the comment you forgot to removed in 3/3.

Thanks a lot!

Thomas

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