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| -rw-r--r-- | target/linux/mvebu/patches-3.18/030-do_not_register_custom_DMA_operations_when_coherency_is_disabled.patch | 48 |
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/target/linux/mvebu/patches-3.18/030-do_not_register_custom_DMA_operations_when_coherency_is_disabled.patch b/target/linux/mvebu/patches-3.18/030-do_not_register_custom_DMA_operations_when_coherency_is_disabled.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..28cfc9d2d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/target/linux/mvebu/patches-3.18/030-do_not_register_custom_DMA_operations_when_coherency_is_disabled.patch @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +This patch is a partial backport of commit ef01c6c36bb8 ("ARM: mvebu: +remove Armada 375 Z1 workaround for I/O coherency"). This commit was +merged in v3.19, so kernel versions later than v3.19 are not affected +by the problem that this commit fixes. + +It does not make a lot of sense to backport this commit entirely, +since it is mainly removing some no longer useful code. However, this +commit is also making sure that the bus_register_notifier that +register the custom DMA operations that should be used for HW I/O +coherency does not get registered when said HW I/O coherency is not +enabled. + +This is particularly critical since we have decided to disable HW I/O +coherency completely in all kernels < 4.0, to be on the safe side, +while experimenting a new implementation of the HW I/O coherency in >= +4.0. + +Without this commit, kernels earlier than 3.18 have the custom DMA +operations normally used for HW I/O coherency registered (they don't +do cache maintenance operations), while HW I/O coherency is +disabled. It essentially causes every DMA transfer to transfer +garbage. + +The issue fixed by this commit was introduced by 5ab5afd8ba83 ("ARM: +mvebu: implement Armada 375 coherency workaround"), but it was not +visible until now since it didn't cause any problem when HW I/O +coherency is enabled. + +Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> +Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> v3.16..v3.18 +--- + arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 5 +++-- + 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) + +--- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c ++++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c +@@ -391,8 +391,9 @@ static int __init coherency_late_init(vo + armada_375_coherency_init_wa(); + } + +- bus_register_notifier(&platform_bus_type, +- &mvebu_hwcc_nb); ++ if (coherency_available()) ++ bus_register_notifier(&platform_bus_type, ++ &mvebu_hwcc_nb); + + return 0; + } |