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ARM: mvebu: disable I/O coherency on non-SMP situations on Armada 370/375/38x/XP

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commit e553554536 upstream.

Enabling the hardware I/O coherency on Armada 370, Armada 375, Armada
38x and Armada XP requires a certain number of conditions:

 - On Armada 370, the cache policy must be set to write-allocate.

 - On Armada 375, 38x and XP, the cache policy must be set to
   write-allocate, the pages must be mapped with the shareable
   attribute, and the SMP bit must be set

Currently, on Armada XP, when CONFIG_SMP is enabled, those conditions
are met. However, when Armada XP is used in a !CONFIG_SMP kernel, none
of these conditions are met. With Armada 370, the situation is worse:
since the processor is single core, regardless of whether CONFIG_SMP
or !CONFIG_SMP is used, the cache policy will be set to write-back by
the kernel and not write-allocate.

Since solving this problem turns out to be quite complicated, and we
don't want to let users with a mainline kernel known to have
infrequent but existing data corruptions, this commit proposes to
simply disable hardware I/O coherency in situations where it is known
not to work.

And basically, the is_smp() function of the kernel tells us whether it
is OK to enable hardware I/O coherency or not, so this commit slightly
refactors the coherency_type() function to return
COHERENCY_FABRIC_TYPE_NONE when is_smp() is false, or the appropriate
type of the coherency fabric in the other case.

Thanks to this, the I/O coherency fabric will no longer be used at all
in !CONFIG_SMP configurations. It will continue to be used in
CONFIG_SMP configurations on Armada XP, Armada 375 and Armada 38x
(which are multiple cores processors), but will no longer be used on
Armada 370 (which is a single core processor).

In the process, it simplifies the implementation of the
coherency_type() function, and adds a missing call to of_node_put().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Fixes: e60304f8cb ("arm: mvebu: Add hardware I/O Coherency support")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.8+
Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415871540-20302-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Thomas Petazzoni
2014-11-13 10:38:57 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 697f52b455
commit f35fff85dc
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@@ -141,6 +141,29 @@ int __init coherency_init(void)
{
struct device_node *np;
/*
* The coherency fabric is needed:
* - For coherency between processors on Armada XP, so only
* when SMP is enabled.
* - For coherency between the processor and I/O devices, but
* this coherency requires many pre-requisites (write
* allocate cache policy, shareable pages, SMP bit set) that
* are only meant in SMP situations.
*
* Note that this means that on Armada 370, there is currently
* no way to use hardware I/O coherency, because even when
* CONFIG_SMP is enabled, is_smp() returns false due to the
* Armada 370 being a single-core processor. To lift this
* limitation, we would have to find a way to make the cache
* policy set to write-allocate (on all Armada SoCs), and to
* set the shareable attribute in page tables (on all Armada
* SoCs except the Armada 370). Unfortunately, such decisions
* are taken very early in the kernel boot process, at a point
* where we don't know yet on which SoC we are running.
*/
if (!is_smp())
return 0;
np = of_find_matching_node(NULL, of_coherency_table);
if (np) {
pr_info("Initializing Coherency fabric\n");