[PATCH] ARM: dts: mvebu: pl310-cache disable double-linefill

[Gregory CLEMENT]

Hi,
 
 On mer., oct. 25 2017, Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> From: Yan Markman <ymarkman at marvell.com>
>
> Under heavy system stress mvebu SoC using Cortex A9 sporadically
> encountered instability issues.
>
> The "double linefill" feature of L2 cache was identified as causing
> dependency between read and write which lead to the deadlock.
>
> Especially, it was the cause of deadlock seen under heavy PCIe traffic,
> as this dependency violates PCIE overtaking rule.
>
> Fixes: c8f5a878e554 ("ARM: mvebu: use DT properties to fine-tune the L2 configuration")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Yan Markman <ymarkman at marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Igal Liberman <igall at marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Haklai <nadavh at marvell.com>
> [gregory.clement at free-electrons.com: reformulate commit log, add Armada
> 375 and add Fixes tag]
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>

Applied on mvebu/fixes

Gregory


> ---
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-375.dtsi | 4 ++--
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi | 4 ++--
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-39x.dtsi | 4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-375.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-375.dtsi
> index 7225c7ce9a8d..2cb1bcd30976 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-375.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-375.dtsi
> @@ -178,9 +178,9 @@
>  				reg = <0x8000 0x1000>;
>  				cache-unified;
>  				cache-level = <2>;
> -				arm,double-linefill-incr = <1>;
> +				arm,double-linefill-incr = <0>;
>  				arm,double-linefill-wrap = <0>;
> -				arm,double-linefill = <1>;
> +				arm,double-linefill = <0>;
>  				prefetch-data = <1>;
>  			};
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi
> index 7ff0811e61db..05e241fb91ad 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-38x.dtsi
> @@ -143,9 +143,9 @@
>  				reg = <0x8000 0x1000>;
>  				cache-unified;
>  				cache-level = <2>;
> -				arm,double-linefill-incr = <1>;
> +				arm,double-linefill-incr = <0>;
>  				arm,double-linefill-wrap = <0>;
> -				arm,double-linefill = <1>;
> +				arm,double-linefill = <0>;
>  				prefetch-data = <1>;
>  			};
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-39x.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-39x.dtsi
> index ea657071e278..5218bd2a248d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-39x.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-39x.dtsi
> @@ -111,9 +111,9 @@
>  				reg = <0x8000 0x1000>;
>  				cache-unified;
>  				cache-level = <2>;
> -				arm,double-linefill-incr = <1>;
> +				arm,double-linefill-incr = <0>;
>  				arm,double-linefill-wrap = <0>;
> -				arm,double-linefill = <1>;
> +				arm,double-linefill = <0>;
>  				prefetch-data = <1>;
>  			};
>  
> -- 
> 2.14.2
>

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