[PATCH] mtd: bcm47xxsflash: use uncached MMIO access for BCM53573
Boris Brezillon
boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 7 01:41:56 PST 2016
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:21:28 +0200
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
>
> BCM53573 is a new series of Broadcom's SoCs. It's based on ARM and uses
> this old ChipCommon-based flash access. Early tests resulted in flash
> corruptions that were tracked down to using cached MMIO for flash read
> access. Switch to ioremap_nocache conditionally to support BCM53573 and
> don't break performance on old MIPS devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal at milecki.pl>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/devices/bcm47xxsflash.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/bcm47xxsflash.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/bcm47xxsflash.c
> index 1c65c15..514be04 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/bcm47xxsflash.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/bcm47xxsflash.c
> @@ -296,16 +296,30 @@ static int bcm47xxsflash_bcma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> dev_err(dev, "can't request region for resource %pR\n", res);
> return -EBUSY;
> }
> - b47s->window = ioremap_cache(res->start, resource_size(res));
> - if (!b47s->window) {
> - dev_err(dev, "ioremap failed for resource %pR\n", res);
> - return -ENOMEM;
> - }
>
> b47s->bcma_cc = container_of(sflash, struct bcma_drv_cc, sflash);
> b47s->cc_read = bcm47xxsflash_bcma_cc_read;
> b47s->cc_write = bcm47xxsflash_bcma_cc_write;
>
> + /*
> + * On old MIPS devices cache was magically invalidated when needed,
> + * allowing us to use cached access and gain some performance. Trying
> + * the same on ARM based BCM53573 results in flash corruptions, we need
> + * to use uncached access for it.
> + *
> + * It may be arch specific, but right now there is only 1 ARM SoC using
> + * this driver, so let's follow Broadcom's reference code and check
> + * ChipCommon revision.
> + */
> + if (b47s->bcma_cc->core->id.rev == 54)
> + b47s->window = ioremap_nocache(res->start, resource_size(res));
> + else
> + b47s->window = ioremap_cache(res->start, resource_size(res));
> + if (!b47s->window) {
> + dev_err(dev, "ioremap failed for resource %pR\n", res);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> switch (b47s->bcma_cc->capabilities & BCMA_CC_CAP_FLASHT) {
> case BCMA_CC_FLASHT_STSER:
> b47s->type = BCM47XXSFLASH_TYPE_ST;
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