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From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: DMA: Add plat_extra_sync_for_cpu()
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 19:34:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100909173426.GA14371@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8914E8.5030002@caviumnetworks.com>

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:10:00AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 09/08/2010 04:02 PM, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
>> On noncoherent processors with a readahead cache, an extra platform-
>> specific invalidation is required during the dma_sync_*_for_cpu()
>> operations to keep drivers from seeing stale prefetched data.
>
> But as far as I can see, none of your plat_extra_sync_for_cpu() do anything.
>
> Perhaps adding this hook should be deferred until there is actually a user.

looks like this is doing what the non_coherent_r10000 case does. So IMHO
either which make non_coheren check more generic or could use the new
plat_sync thingie for IP28 and other non coherent r10k boxes.

Thomas.

-- 
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a
good idea.                                                [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-09 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-08 23:02 [PATCH v2 1/3] MIPS: HIGHMEM DMA on noncoherent MIPS32 processors Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-08 23:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] MIPS: Allow UserLocal on MIPS_R1 processors Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-09  9:53   ` Ralf Baechle
2010-09-08 23:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: DMA: Add plat_extra_sync_for_cpu() Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-09  9:34   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2010-09-09 12:39     ` Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-09 17:10   ` David Daney
2010-09-09 17:34     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2010-09-09 18:35       ` Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-09 18:58         ` David Daney

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