Hi Eric, is that errata #12 you are referring to? (only present on silicon stepping AB?) Or are there others also? While using HW coherency for copying large files on disk, I do get occasional data errors which always look like this: 00061000 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 33 32 0a Linie: 24832. 00061010 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 33 33 0a Linie: 24833. 00061020 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 33 34 0a Linie: 24834. 00061030 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 33 35 0a Linie: 24835. 00061040 38 33 35 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 835.Linie: 24 00061050 38 33 36 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 836.Linie: 24 00061060 38 33 37 0a 38 33 37 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 837.837.Linie: 00061070 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 33 39 0a Linie: 24839. 00061080 38 33 39 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 839.Linie: 24 00061090 38 34 30 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 840.Linie: 24 000610a0 38 34 31 0a 38 34 31 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 841.841.Linie: 000610b0 20 20 32 34 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 34 33 0a 24e: 24843. 000610c0 38 34 33 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 843.Linie: 24 000610d0 38 34 34 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 844.Linie: 24 000610e0 38 34 35 0a 38 34 35 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 845.845.Linie: 000610f0 20 20 32 34 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 34 37 0a 24e: 24847. 00061100 38 34 37 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 847.Linie: 24 00061110 38 34 38 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 848.Linie: 24 00061120 38 34 39 0a 38 34 39 0a 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 849.849.Linie: 00061130 20 20 32 34 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 31 0a 24e: 24851. 00061140 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 32 0a Linie: 24852. 00061150 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 33 0a Linie: 24853. 00061160 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 34 0a Linie: 24854. 00061170 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 35 0a Linie: 24855. 00061180 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 36 0a Linie: 24856. 00061190 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 37 0a Linie: 24857. 000611a0 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 38 0a Linie: 24858. 000611b0 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 35 39 0a Linie: 24859. 000611c0 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 20 32 34 38 36 30 0a Linie: 24860. The file consists of 16-byte lines with increasing line numbers. Note that most of the errors are cacheline oriented, but there are also "skews" of 4 bytes going into the next cacheline. However, interestingly enough, switching HW coherency off entirely (in PCI_CFG) and using uncached PCI buffers, there are still failures: 001ec060 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 35 38 0a Linie: 125958. 001ec070 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 35 39 0a Linie: 125959. 001ec080 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 36 30 0a Linie: 125960. 001ec090 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 36 31 0a Linie: 125961. 001ec0a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 001ec0b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 001ec0c0 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 36 34 0a Linie: 125964. 001ec0d0 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 36 35 0a Linie: 125965. 001ec0e0 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 36 36 0a Linie: 125966. 001ec0f0 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 36 37 0a Linie: 125967. 001ec100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 c7 00 00 00 ................ 001ec110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 dd 00 00 00 ................ 001ec120 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 37 30 0a Linie: 125970. 001ec130 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 37 31 0a Linie: 125971. 001ec140 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 37 32 0a Linie: 125972. 001ec150 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 37 33 0a Linie: 125973. 001ec160 4c 69 6e 69 65 3a 20 20 20 31 32 35 39 37 34 0a Linie: 125974. Is there anything else than bit 16 in the PCI_CFG register which needs to be set to force non-coherent PCI accesses and avoid the PCI errata? /Hartvig Eric DeVolder wrote: > There are data cache snoop bugs with respect to PCI on the Au1500. For the > Au1500s soldered on DbAu1500 boards to-date, PCI can not use coherent > transactions. Details in the Specification Update for the Au1500 > available from: > > www.amd.com/pcs > -> Technical Resources > -> AMD Alchemy Solutions Development Board Support > > Login with your board and you'll be presented with various docs, > including the > spec update. > > Regards, > Eric > > Hartvig Ekner wrote: > > >Hi Pete, > > > >I am attempting to use the HW coherency feature of the AU1500 to avoid SW flushes and increase the performance. > >In the config-shared.in file, I can see that the CONFIG_NONCOHERENT_IO define is always set for the AMD > >eval boards, which results in SW cache flushes when dma_cache_xxx functions are called. If HW coherency is > >working, this define should not be set. > > > >However, in your drivers, you only call the dma_cache functions from au1000/common/usbdev.c, but not from e.g. the ethernet > >driver or the audio driver. Is this intentional? It seems that the ethernet & audio driver already relies on HW > >coherency to function correctly (and it also sets the MAC enable bits accordingly, to force all ETH DMA > >accesses to be coherent), so why not USB also? > > > >When turning off NONCOHERENT_IO, there are some bugs (not in AU1000 code) which prevents the code from > >compiling, but I have fixed these. And the kernel boots, but during some large disk-copy tests, I get occasional > >data errors which I'm looking in to. > > > >So before spending more time on debugging this, and creating patches for using HW coherency, I wanted to hear > >your input - maybe there are known problems in the Au1500 coherency implementation? > > > >/Hartvig > >
