linux/arch/mips/mm
Kevin Cernekee d0023c4a0a MIPS: Add SYNC after cacheflush
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>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: 
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2011-07-25 17:26:53 +01:00
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c-octeon.c MIPS: Octeon: Handle Octeon II caches. 2010-10-29 19:08:36 +01:00
c-r3k.c update David Miller's old email address 2011-04-06 06:19:38 -07:00
c-r4k.c MIPS: Add SYNC after cacheflush 2011-07-25 17:26:53 +01:00
c-tx39.c update David Miller's old email address 2011-04-06 06:19:38 -07:00
cache.c MIPS: Fix __vmalloc() etc. on MIPS for non-GPL modules 2010-04-12 17:26:21 +01:00
cerr-sb1.c MIPS: Sibyte: Use hweight8 instead of counting bits 2009-12-17 01:57:16 +00:00
cex-gen.S
cex-oct.S MIPS: Add Cavium OCTEON processor support files to arch/mips/cavium-octeon. 2009-01-11 09:57:21 +00:00
cex-sb1.S Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
dma-default.c MIPS: HIGHMEM DMA on noncoherent MIPS32 processors 2011-07-25 17:26:52 +01:00
extable.c MIPS: Eleminate filenames from comments 2009-08-03 17:52:40 +01:00
fault.c MIPS: add support for software performance events 2010-10-29 19:08:48 +01:00
highmem.c mm: fix race in kunmap_atomic() 2010-10-27 18:03:05 -07:00
hugetlbpage.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
init.c MIPS: pfn_valid() is broken on low memory HIGHMEM systems 2011-07-25 17:26:52 +01:00
ioremap.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Makefile MIPS: Move arch_get_unmapped_area and gang to new file. 2011-05-19 09:55:49 +01:00
mmap.c MIPS: topdown mmap support 2011-07-25 17:26:51 +01:00
page.c MIPS: Move arch/mips/mm/uasm.h to arch/mips/include/asm/uasm.h 2010-02-27 12:53:19 +01:00
pgtable-32.c
pgtable-64.c MIPS: Two-level pagetables for 64-bit kernels with 64KB pages. 2010-02-27 12:53:03 +01:00
sc-ip22.c update David Miller's old email address 2011-04-06 06:19:38 -07:00
sc-mips.c MIPS: Fix build errors in sc-mips.c 2010-12-17 19:44:35 +00:00
sc-r5k.c update David Miller's old email address 2011-04-06 06:19:38 -07:00
sc-rm7k.c MIPS: RM7000: Symbol should be static 2010-10-04 18:33:54 +01:00
tlb-r3k.c update David Miller's old email address 2011-04-06 06:19:38 -07:00
tlb-r4k.c update David Miller's old email address 2011-04-06 06:19:38 -07:00
tlb-r8k.c update David Miller's old email address 2011-04-06 06:19:38 -07:00
tlbex-fault.S
tlbex.c MIPS: Netlogic: Cache, TLB support and feature overrides for XLR 2011-05-19 09:55:40 +01:00
uasm.c MIPS: Use WARN() in uasm for better diagnostics. 2011-01-18 19:30:24 +01:00