Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] ARM: dma-mapping: Don't use outer_flush_range when the L2C is coherent

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 06:50:57PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> When a L2 cache controller is used in a system that provides hardware

You're talking about L2 cache here, but you're also masking out the L1
cache maintanence (dmac_*) too.  It's my understanding that we don't
yet support coherency to L1 yet.

> In the current kernel implementation, the outer cache flush range
> operation is triggered by the dma_alloc function.
> This operation can be take place during runtime and in some
> circumstances may lead to the PCIe/PL310 deadlock on Armada 375/38x
> SoCs.

I wonder if that's what's causing the sporadic lockups I'm seeing on
38x with a SATA PCIe card - it happens at a very specific point during
boot while initialising the SATA card, right down to the kernel message
character that it stops at.

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