[PATCH 0/2] Barrier changes with !ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Jun 25 12:00:35 EDT 2010


Russell,

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:23 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The patches are relatively simple but without them the RealView boards
> cannot be used with L210/L220 enabled (hardware deadlock, not a software
> issue).
> 
> Catalin Marinas (2):
>       ARM: Do not use outer_sync() in mb() if !ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE
>       ARM: Do not enable ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE for some RealView boards

Are you ok with these patches, especially the first one?

Alternatively, I can implement the barriers in the RealView code (though
the second patch is still needed as I'll drop the outer_sync() for ARMv6
RealView).

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin




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