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* Cortex A9 with ACP needing mixed coherency model
@ 2012-08-24  0:58 John Linn
  2012-08-24  8:54 ` Will Deacon
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From: John Linn @ 2012-08-24  0:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

It doesn't look like there's any good way to have a mixed coherency
model to support using the ACP where there is coherency and using
other ports where there is not coherency.
ARM Linux kernel can support arch_is_coherent(), which means all DMA
I/O is coherent. We have multiple DMA engines and they can go to thru
coherent or non-coherent ports.

Am I missing something, or has someone figured out a way to deal with this?

Thanks,
John

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* Cortex A9 with ACP needing mixed coherency model
  2012-08-24  0:58 Cortex A9 with ACP needing mixed coherency model John Linn
@ 2012-08-24  8:54 ` Will Deacon
  2012-08-24 13:05   ` Rob Herring
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Will Deacon @ 2012-08-24  8:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:58:50AM +0100, John Linn wrote:
> It doesn't look like there's any good way to have a mixed coherency
> model to support using the ACP where there is coherency and using
> other ports where there is not coherency.
> ARM Linux kernel can support arch_is_coherent(), which means all DMA
> I/O is coherent. We have multiple DMA engines and they can go to thru
> coherent or non-coherent ports.
> 
> Am I missing something, or has someone figured out a way to deal with this?

Didn't Rob have a crack at fixing this with his recent DMA series?

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-August/113929.html

It's a really nice set of patches, so take a look.

Will

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* Cortex A9 with ACP needing mixed coherency model
  2012-08-24  8:54 ` Will Deacon
@ 2012-08-24 13:05   ` Rob Herring
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rob Herring @ 2012-08-24 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

On 08/24/2012 03:54 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:58:50AM +0100, John Linn wrote:
>> It doesn't look like there's any good way to have a mixed coherency
>> model to support using the ACP where there is coherency and using
>> other ports where there is not coherency.
>> ARM Linux kernel can support arch_is_coherent(), which means all DMA
>> I/O is coherent. We have multiple DMA engines and they can go to thru
>> coherent or non-coherent ports.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or has someone figured out a way to deal with this?
> 
> Didn't Rob have a crack at fixing this with his recent DMA series?
> 
>   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-August/113929.html
> 
> It's a really nice set of patches, so take a look.

It's queued up in Marek's dma-mapping tree for 3.7.

Rob

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