Problem with dma_alloc_coherent at linux-2.6.33-arm1 , with RealView platform,board PBX-A9 and armv7 instructions.

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:56:41PM +0800, David Yang wrote:
> I have explicitly added the barrier() in my driver, but it did't work.

This imples that you've tried your own solution, which is completely
different from Catalin's patches.

barrier() is just a compiler barrier, nothing more.  It won't have any
effect on external memory ordering.  It's not surprising this doesn't
have much effect.