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* [PATCH RESEND 1/7] MIPS: sync after cacheflush
@ 2010-11-23 18:26 Kevin Cernekee
  2010-11-23 18:26 ` [PATCH RESEND 2/7] MIPS: pfn_valid() is broken on low memory HIGHMEM systems Kevin Cernekee
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Cernekee @ 2010-11-23 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ralf Baechle; +Cc: macro, skuribay, raiko, linux-mips, linux-kernel

On processors with deep write buffers, it is likely that many cycles
will pass between a CACHE instruction and the time the data actually
gets written out to DRAM.  Add a SYNC instruction to ensure that the
buffers get emptied before the flush functions return.

Actual problem seen in the wild:

1) dma_alloc_coherent() allocates cached memory

2) memset() is called to clear the new pages

3) dma_cache_wback_inv() is called to flush the zero data out to memory

4) dma_alloc_coherent() returns an uncached (kseg1) pointer to the
freshly allocated pages

5) Caller writes data through the kseg1 pointer

6) Buffered writeback data finally gets flushed out to DRAM

7) Part of caller's data is inexplicably zeroed out

This patch adds SYNC between steps 3 and 4, which fixed the problem.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
---
 arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
index b4923a7..dc5d9c4 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c
@@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ static void r4k_dma_cache_wback_inv(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
 			r4k_blast_scache();
 		else
 			blast_scache_range(addr, addr + size);
+		__sync();
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -620,6 +621,7 @@ static void r4k_dma_cache_wback_inv(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
 	}
 
 	bc_wback_inv(addr, size);
+	__sync();
 }
 
 static void r4k_dma_cache_inv(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
@@ -647,6 +649,7 @@ static void r4k_dma_cache_inv(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
 				 (addr + size - 1) & almask);
 			blast_inv_scache_range(addr, addr + size);
 		}
+		__sync();
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -663,6 +666,7 @@ static void r4k_dma_cache_inv(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
 	}
 
 	bc_inv(addr, size);
+	__sync();
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_DMA_NONCOHERENT */
 
-- 
1.7.0.4


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2010-11-23 18:26 ` [PATCH v2 RESEND 3/7] MIPS: Move FIXADDR_TOP into spaces.h Kevin Cernekee
2010-11-23 18:26 ` [PATCH v4 RESEND 4/7] MIPS: HIGHMEM DMA on noncoherent MIPS32 processors Kevin Cernekee
2010-11-23 18:26 ` [PATCH RESEND 5/7] MIPS: Install handlers for BMIPS software IRQs Kevin Cernekee
2010-11-23 18:26 ` [PATCH 6/7] MIPS: Fix CP0 COUNTER clockevent race Kevin Cernekee
2010-11-24 11:34   ` Ralf Baechle
2010-11-23 18:26 ` [PATCH 7/7] MIPS: Fix regression on BCM4710 processor detection Kevin Cernekee
2010-11-24 11:34   ` Ralf Baechle

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