Re: [RFC PATCH v1] memory: tegra: Block DMA for clients HW on a faulty memory access

Dmitry Osipenko
2018-08-04T11:53:31Z

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 19:58:41 MSK Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> Currently Memory Controller informs about erroneous memory accesses done
> by memory clients and that's it. Let's make it to block whole HW unit
> that corresponds to the misbehaving memory client in order to try to avoid
> memory corruptions and to stop deliberate attempts of manipulation by a
> misbehaving client.

Guys, any comments? That is a kinda useful feature, in worst case only some of
memory could get corrupted instead of trashing the whole memory. In my
experience with T20/30, the interrupt handling latency is low and blocking
happens immediately after the first page fault.