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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@mvista.com>
To: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: 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, 09 Sep 2010 13:34:31 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C88AA27.5070206@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99a0868bdbcfa8785a92b4af4f6d9b99@localhost>

Hello.

On 09-09-2010 3:02, 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.

> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee<cernekee@gmail.com>
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/dma-coherence.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/dma-coherence.h
> index 17d5794..8192683 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/dma-coherence.h
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/dma-coherence.h
> @@ -52,6 +52,19 @@ static inline void plat_extra_sync_for_device(struct device *dev)
>   	mb();
>   }
>
> +static inline void plat_extra_sync_for_cpu(struct device *dev,
> +	dma_addr_t dma_handle, unsigned long offset, size_t size,
> +	enum dma_data_direction direction)
> +{
> +	return;

    Why not just empty function bodies?

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-09  9:36 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 [this message]
2010-09-09 12:39     ` Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-09 17:10   ` David Daney
2010-09-09 17:34     ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2010-09-09 18:35       ` Kevin Cernekee
2010-09-09 18:58         ` David Daney

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