[PATCH 2/8] ARM: Implement read/write for ownership in theARMv6 DMA cache ops
Ronen Shitrit
rshitrit at marvell.com
Sun May 16 02:28:41 EDT 2010
Yes it does...
-----Original Message-----
From: George G. Davis [mailto:gdavis at mvista.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 4:26 AM
To: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Ronen Shitrit; Russell King - ARM Linux; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] ARM: Implement read/write for ownership in theARMv6 DMA cache ops
Hi,
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 05:42:31PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 17:29 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > What I think I missed in my patch (and didn't show up with a sata drive)
> > is the "sync" operations. The dma_sync_single_for_device(FROMDEVICE)
> > corrupts the existing buffer.
> >
> > I'll post an updated patch shortly.
>
> Actually I think the hunk that I posted earlier should be enough:
Um, apologies for the noise but I didn't understand if Ronen said
this resolved the e1000 problem or not.
Thanks!
--
Regards,
George
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v6.S b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v6.S
> index a4a6840..aa3ac32 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-v6.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-v6.S
> @@ -216,7 +216,8 @@ v6_dma_inv_range:
> #endif
> 1:
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> - str r0, [r0] @ write for ownership
> + ldr r2, [r0] @ read for ownership
> + str r2, [r0] @ write for ownership
> #endif
> #ifdef HARVARD_CACHE
> mcr p15, 0, r0, c7, c6, 1 @ invalidate D line
>
>
> The dma_sync_single_for_cpu() eventually calls dmac_unmap_area() which
> on ARM11MPCore became a no-op. There is no problem since this function
> call is always preceded by a call to either dma_map_single() or
> dma_sync_single_to_device(), both of them calling dma_map_area() which
> does the cache invalidation.
>
> With the patch above, v6_dma_inv_range() is no longer destructive so the
> transferred data to the SDRAM is preserved. We could even re-instate the
> v6_dma_unmap_area() function but for performance reasons I would leave
> it as a no-op.
>
> Russell, are you ok with such change? Since you already applied the
> original patch as #6111, I will send an additional patch with this fix
> (I'm sending it directly to the patch system as I won't have access to
> my work PC this weekend. Feel free to apply or reject).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Catalin
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