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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.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 10:10:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8914E8.5030002@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99a0868bdbcfa8785a92b4af4f6d9b99@localhost>

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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee<cernekee@gmail.com>
> ---
>   .../include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/dma-coherence.h |   13 +++++++++++++
>   arch/mips/include/asm/mach-generic/dma-coherence.h |   13 +++++++++++++
>   arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ip27/dma-coherence.h    |   13 +++++++++++++
>   arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ip32/dma-coherence.h    |   13 +++++++++++++
>   arch/mips/include/asm/mach-jazz/dma-coherence.h    |   13 +++++++++++++
>   .../mips/include/asm/mach-loongson/dma-coherence.h |   13 +++++++++++++
>   arch/mips/include/asm/mach-powertv/dma-coherence.h |   13 +++++++++++++
>   arch/mips/mm/dma-default.c                         |    3 +++
>   8 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
[...]

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.

David Daney

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-09 17:10 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 [this message]
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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