[PATCH 0/3] bus: mvebu-mbus: important fixes and improvements
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu May 28 01:40:11 PDT 2015
Dear mvebu maintainers,
This set of patches contain two very important fixes to the mvebu-mbus
driver fixing significant regressions introduced during the 4.0 cycle,
and one patch re-implementing in a different a feature that caused one
of the two regressions.
* The first patch, provided by Nicolas Schichan, fixed a regression
introduced in 4.0 by commit a0b5cd4ac2d6 ("bus: mvebu-mbus: use
automatic I/O synchronization barriers"). This commit didn't take
into account non-HW I/O coherent platforms such as Kirkwood or
Orion, for which the new special bit being set causes problems. It
makes some of the MBus I/O windows unusable on these SoCs.
Therefore, this patch is marked for stable and should be merged
for 4.1-rc.
* The second patch is a simple revert of commit "bus: mvebu-mbus:
make sure SDRAM CS for DMA don't overlap the MBus bridge window"
introduced in 4.0. This commit was added in preparation for the
merge of the new DMA-capable CESA crypto driver submitted by Boris
Brezillon. However, it breaks DMA for all the other units if your
platform has 4 GB of RAM or more. Of course, by reverting it, the
functionality needed for the crypto driver is no longer present,
but this is OK since the crypto driver isn't merged yet, and will
not be merged for 4.1.
Therefore, this patch is marked for stable and should be merged
for 4.1-rc.
* The last re-implements the mechanism originally implemented by
"bus: mvebu-mbus: make sure SDRAM CS for DMA don't overlap the
MBus bridge window", but in a completely different way. This patch
will be needed for the CESA driver.
This patch is not a fix, and should therefore be merged in 4.2.
Thanks,
Thomas
Nicolas Schichan (1):
bus: mvebu-mbus: do not set WIN_CTRL_SYNCBARRIER on non io-coherent
platforms.
Thomas Petazzoni (2):
Revert "bus: mvebu-mbus: make sure SDRAM CS for DMA don't overlap the
MBus bridge window"
bus: mvebu-mbus: add mv_mbus_dram_info_nooverlap()
drivers/bus/mvebu-mbus.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
include/linux/mbus.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
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