On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 6:01 PM Florian Fainelli
<florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/11/24 14:47, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 6:54 PM Florian Fainelli
> > <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> The write to RP2_GLOBAL_CMD followed by an immediate read of
> >> RP2_GLOBAL_CMD in rp2_reset_asic() is intented to flush out the write,
> >> however by then the device is already in reset and cannot respond to a
> >> memory cycle access.
> >>
> >> On platforms such as the Raspberry Pi 4 and others using the
> >> pcie-brcmstb.c driver, any memory access to a device that cannot respond
> >> is met with a fatal system error, rather than being substituted with all
> >> 1s as is usually the case on PC platforms.
> >>
> >> Swapping the delay and the read ensures that the device has finished
> >> resetting before we attempt to read from it.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 7d9f49afa451 ("serial: rp2: New driver for Comtrol RocketPort 2 cards")
> >> Suggested-by: Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c b/drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c
> >> index 4132fcff7d4e..8bab2aedc499 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/rp2.c
> >> @@ -577,8 +577,8 @@ static void rp2_reset_asic(struct rp2_card *card, unsigned int asic_id)
> >> u32 clk_cfg;
> >>
> >> writew(1, base + RP2_GLOBAL_CMD);
> >> - readw(base + RP2_GLOBAL_CMD);
> >> msleep(100);
> >> + readw(base + RP2_GLOBAL_CMD);
> >
> > Since the assumed purpose of the readw() was to flush the writew(),
> > would it make sense to add a barrier after the writew()?
>
> AFAICT there is one which is implied within the name, as it is not a
> _relaxed() variant. Did you mean a different sort of barrier to be used?
Not sure. The __raw_writew() is followed by __io_aw(), which is a
no-op on arm64. I don't know arm64 well enough to know if a follow-up
barrier is needed.
- Jim
> --
> Florian
>
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