Applied "spi: atmel: fix corrupted data issue on SAM9 family SoCs" to the spi tree
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Fri Jun 23 10:18:30 PDT 2017
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 05:15:58PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SOC_SAM_V4_V5
> + /*
> + * Atmel SoCs based on ARM9 (SAM9x) cores should not use spi_map_buf()
> + * since this later function tries to map buffers with dma_map_sg()
> + * even if they have not been allocated inside DMA-safe areas.
> + * On SoCs based on Cortex A5 (SAMA5Dx), it works anyway because for
> + * those ARM cores, the data cache follows the PIPT model.
> + * Also the L2 cache controller of SAMA5D2 uses the PIPT model too.
> + * In case of PIPT caches, there cannot be cache aliases.
> + * However on ARM9 cores, the data cache follows the VIVT model, hence
> + * the cache aliases issue can occur when buffers are allocated from
> + * DMA-unsafe areas, by vmalloc() for instance, where cache coherency is
> + * not taken into account or at least not handled completely (cache
> + * lines of aliases are not invalidated).
There is a solution to this - code (iow, callers of functions that perform
IO) are expected to use flush_kernel_vmap_range() and
invalidate_kernel_vmap_range() as documented in Documentation/cachetlb.txt
to ensure that their "special" views are properly handled.
These are no-ops for PIPT caches, but aliasing caches have to implement
them.
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