On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:10:35AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > Using coherent DMA memory with the OMAP DMA engine results in > unpredictable behaviour due to memory ordering issues; as things stand, > there is no guarantee that data written to coherent DMA memory will be > visible to the DMA hardware. > > This is because the OMAP dma_write() accessor contains no barriers, > necessary on ARMv6 and above. The effect of this can be seen in comments > in the OMAP serial driver, which incorrectly talks about cache flushing > for the coherent DMA stuff. > > Rather than adding barriers to the accessors, add it in the DMA support > code just before we enable DMA, and just after we disable DMA. This > avoids having barriers for every DMA register access. > > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk>
cool, should this go to stable too ? -- balbi
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