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From: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com>
To: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Sequoia kernel crash workaround.
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:39:05 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F16CC9.3010003@ru.mvista.com> (raw)

I've observed kernel crashes on Sequoia board several times.
Kernel often crashes with high network/memory loads.
This is due to 440EPx h/w issue.

According to the errata:
CHIP_8: Incorrect Write to DDR SDRAM.
Category: 3
Overview:
The write address can be corrupted during writes to DDR SDRAM when write 
pipelining is enabled on PLB0. The probability of encountering the 
problem increases with the amount of back-pressure applied by the SDRAM.
Impact: Data can be written to the wrong address in SDRAM.
Workaround:
Disable write pipelining to DDR SDRAM by setting PLB4A0_ACR[WRP] = 0. 
Only primary write transfers are broadcast and the write address 
corruption is avoided.

Disabling write pipelining really helps.
Josh, David, what is the right place to put this workaround to?

Is it OK to do mtdcr(PLB4A0_ACR, mfdcr(PLB4A0_ACR) & ~PLB4_WRP); in
arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot-sequoia.c:sequoia_fixups()?
or
should this be done in
arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/sequoia.c:sequoia_setup_arch()
with dcr_map, dcr_read/write stuff?

Thanks,
Valentine.

             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19 18:39 Valentine Barshak [this message]
2007-09-19 19:12 ` Sequoia kernel crash workaround Josh Boyer
2007-09-19 19:19 ` Stefan Roese
2007-09-19 19:30   ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-19 20:08     ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-20 16:56       ` Valentine Barshak
2007-09-20 17:25         ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-20 17:29           ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-23  8:21             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-24 10:35               ` Valentine Barshak
2007-09-24 20:55                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-24 21:01                   ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-20 18:03           ` Olof Johansson
2007-09-20 17:32         ` Milton Miller
2007-09-20 17:55           ` [PATCH] PowerPC: add setup_cpu for 44x for processor-specific init Valentine Barshak
2007-09-20 18:13             ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-20 18:15               ` Valentine Barshak
2007-09-20 18:54             ` Kumar Gala
2007-09-20 18:55               ` Valentine Barshak
2007-09-21  1:34             ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-20 18:02           ` Sequoia kernel crash workaround Josh Boyer
2007-09-20 18:13             ` Valentine Barshak

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