[PATCH 0/6] ARM: mvebu: mvebu-mbus and I/O coherency fixes

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Jan 10 13:36:24 PST 2015


Dear Arnd Bergmann,

On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:40:07 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Yes, but it may be better to stage this by first putting a patch
> into stable that completely disables the broken coherent mapping,
> and following up with another patch to bring the cohernet behavior
> in sync with mainline once we are reasonably sure it's good.

Fine with me. I'll submit such patches next week. Though for the next
merge window, I'd like the proposed automatic I/O synchronization
barriers to be merged, so that we progressively make progress towards
the solution.

Thanks,

Thomas
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