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

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat Jan 10 13:51:13 PST 2015


On Saturday 10 January 2015 22:36:24 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 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.

Ok.

> 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.

Yes, definitely. I wouldn't mind taking them for 3.19 even if all mvebu
maintainers want that.

	Arnd



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