[PATCH 2/3] ARM: mvebu: map PCI I/O regions strongly ordered

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi Thomas,
 
 On jeu., juin 16 2016, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> In order for HW I/O coherency to work on Cortex-A9 based Marvell SoCs,
> all MMIO registers must be mapped strongly ordered. In commit
> 1c8c3cf0b5239 ("ARM: 8060/1: mm: allow sub-architectures to override PCI
> I/O memory type") we implemented a new function,
> pci_ioremap_set_mem_type(), that allow sub-architecture code to override
> the memory type used to map PCI I/O regions.
>
> In the discussion around this patch series [1], Arnd Bergmann made the
> comment that maybe all PCI I/O regions should be mapped
> strongly-ordered, which would have made our proposal to add
> pci_ioremap_set_mem_type() irrelevant. So, we submitted a patch [2] that
> did what Arnd suggested.
>
> However, Russell in the end merged our initial proposal to add
> pci_ioremap_set_mem_type(), but it was never used anywhere. Further
> discussion with Arnd and other folks on IRC lead to the conclusion that
> in fact using strongly-ordered for all platforms was maybe not
> desirable, and therefore, using pci_ioremap_set_mem_type() was the most
> appropriate solution.
>
> As a consequence, this commit finally adds the
> pci_ioremap_set_mem_type() call in the mach-mvebu platform code, which
> was originally part of our initial patch series [3] and is necessary for
> the whole mechanism to work.
>
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-May/256565.html
> [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-May/256755.html
> [3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-May/256563.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Applied on mvebu/fixes

Thanks,

Gregory

> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
> index 474abff..e80f0dd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ static void __init armada_375_380_coherency_init(struct device_node *np)
>  
>  	coherency_cpu_base = of_iomap(np, 0);
>  	arch_ioremap_caller = armada_wa_ioremap_caller;
> +	pci_ioremap_set_mem_type(MT_UNCACHED);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * We should switch the PL310 to I/O coherency mode only if
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>

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