Re: [PATCHv3 4/9] ARM: OMAP2+: AM33XX: Reserve memory to comply with EMIF spec

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Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> writes:

> On Thursday 08 August 2013 02:16 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Dave Gerlach <d-gerlach@xxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>>> From: Vaibhav Bedia <vaibhav.bedia@xxxxxx>
>>>
>>> SDRAM controller on AM33XX requires that a modification of certain
>>> bit-fields in PWR_MGMT_CTRL register (ref. section 7.3.5.13 in
>>> AM335x-Rev H) is followed by a dummy read access to SDRAM. This
>>> scenario arises when entering a low power state like DeepSleep.
>>> To ensure that the read is not from a cached region we reserve
>>> some memory during bootup using the arm_memblock_steal() API.
>> 
>> Hmm, sounds to me an awful lot like the existing omap_bus_sync() ?
>>
> All the credit of that awful omap_bus_sync() goes to me since 
> I introduced it. And I keep beating the hardware guys
> who have not left a choice but to introduce the ugly work
> around in software. ;-)

Agreed, but what's even more awful than the current version is
duplicating it in a slightly different way using yet another whole page
mapping for a single read/write location.

Kevin
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