[PATCHv4 3/3] ARM: mvebu: implement L2/PCIe deadlock workaround

Dear Jason Cooper,

On Fri, 16 May 2014 02:08:51 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 04:59:34PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

quoted

The Marvell Armada 375 and Armada 38x SOCs, which use the Cortex-A9
CPU core, the PL310 cache and the Marvell PCIe hardware block are
affected a L2/PCIe deadlock caused by a system erratum when hardware
I/O coherency is used.

This deadlock can be avoided by mapping the PCIe memory areas as
strongly-ordered (note: MT_UNCACHED is strongly-ordered), and by
removing the outer cache sync done in software. This is implemented in
this patch by:

 * Registering a custom arch_ioremap_caller function that allows to
   make sure PCI memory regions are mapped MT_UNCACHED.

 * Adding at runtime the 'arm,io-coherent' property to the PL310 cache
   controller. This cannot be done permanently in the DT, because the
   hardware I/O coherency can only be enabled when CONFIG_SMP is
   enabled, in the current kernel situation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <redacted>
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 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)

Applied to mvebu/soc.

Hum, well, I believe it's OK, but notice that I will very likely have
to do a followup patch, because the solution of making all PCI I/O
mappings use the MT_UNCACHED memory type, suggested by Arnd, has not
been accepted by Will Deacon. So very likely I will have to change
again the mach-mvebu/coherency.c code to call a function that makes PCI
I/O mappings MT_UNCACHED specifically for the mach-mvebu platform. But
that can indeed be a followup patch.

Thanks,

Thomas
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