[PATCHv2 2/3] bus: mvebu-mbus: use automatic I/O synchronization barriers

[Nicolas Schichan]

On 01/16/2015 05:11 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 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.

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c b/drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c
> index eb7682d..398f0ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c
> @@ -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,

-- 
Nicolas Schichan
Freebox SAS