Re: [PATCHv3 3/3] ARM: mvebu: implement L2/PCIe deadlock workaround

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:18:39AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 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 done in this
> patch, thanks to the new bits of infrastructure added in 'ARM: mm:
> allow sub-architectures to override PCI I/O memory type' and 'ARM: mm:
> add support for HW coherent systems in PL310' respectively.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
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