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From: Yoshihiro Shimoda <shimoda.yoshihiro@renesas.com>
To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: r8a66597-hdc: Flush the D-cache for the pipe-in
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:22:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6A91EC.5030201@renesas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100204065758.GA5574@linux-sh.org>

Paul Mundt wrote:
> This implements the same D-cache flushing logic for r8a66597-hcd as
> Catalin's isp1760 (http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/76391/) change,
> with the same note applying here as well:
> 
>     When the HDC driver writes the data to the transfer buffers it
>     pollutes the D-cache (unlike DMA drivers where the device writes
>     the data). If the corresponding pages get mapped into user space,
>     there are no additional cache flushing operations performed and
>     this causes random user space faults on architectures with
>     separate I and D caches (Harvard) or those with aliasing D-cache.
> 
> This fixes up crashes during USB boot on SH7724 and others:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-sh&m\x126439837308912&w=2
> 
> Reported-by: Goda Yusuke <goda.yusuke@renesas.com>
> Tested-by: Goda Yusuke <goda.yusuke@renesas.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> Shimoda-san, once you Ack these I plan to send them off to Linus for 2.6.33.

Thank you very much for your help.
Acked-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <shimoda.yoshihiro@renesas.com>

Thanks,
Yoshihiro Shimoda


      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-04  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-04  6:57 [PATCH] usb: r8a66597-hdc: Flush the D-cache for the pipe-in transfer buffers Paul Mundt
2010-02-04  9:22 ` Yoshihiro Shimoda [this message]

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