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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter LaDow <petela@gocougs.wsu.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Inbound PCI and Memory Corruption
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:02:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1374184953.19894.525.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN8Q1EeKCTCB30N50iA8-QB=0aoNtS1U3nNLGVoz7sHG-Qg26A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:30 -0700, Peter LaDow wrote:
> We are still stumped on this one, but during a review of the system
> setup one thing came up that we aren't sure about is the device tree
> and the DMA engine.
> 
> It does seem that for incoming PCI transactions the Freescale DMA
> engine is not used.  And in our device tree we have the DMA engine
> commented out.  That is, the "fsl,mpc8349-dma" and "fsl,elo-dma"
> compatible items are not present in the FDT.
> 
> I don't suppose this could be a problem?

I doubt it but somebody from FSL might be able to give a better answer.

I'm personally at a loss. It looks like you are doing everything
right from what I can tell.

That leaves us with some kind of oddball driver bug or a problem
with the low level configuration of the PCIe bridge or the chip
internal bus related to cache coherency maybe.

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-18 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-21 16:56 Inbound PCI and Memory Corruption Peter LaDow
2013-06-21 17:14 ` Peter LaDow
2013-06-23  0:00   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-24  0:56     ` Peter LaDow
2013-06-24  1:16       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-24  3:47         ` Peter LaDow
2013-06-24  3:49           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-25 18:44         ` Peter LaDow
2013-07-10 21:06     ` Peter LaDow
2013-07-10 21:40       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-10 22:16         ` Peter LaDow
2013-07-11 21:00         ` Peter LaDow
2013-07-18 21:30           ` Peter LaDow
2013-07-18 22:02             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-07-19 17:44               ` Scott Wood
2013-07-19 13:46             ` Gerhard Sittig
2013-07-24  4:22               ` Peter LaDow
2013-07-24  4:27                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-24 15:39                   ` Peter LaDow
2013-07-24 22:08                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-07-25  6:13                       ` Peter LaDow
2013-08-02 15:01                         ` Peter LaDow
2013-07-24  8:40                 ` David Laight
2013-07-19 20:13             ` Timur Tabi

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