From 8f1e8ee28660018a935c7576b9af8ffe1feab54c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:11:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: mvebu: completely disable hardware I/O coherency The current hardware I/O coherency is known to cause problems with DMA coherent buffers, as it still requires explicit I/O synchronization barriers, which is not compatible with the semantics expected by the Linux DMA coherent buffers API. So, in order to have enough time to validate a new solution based on automatic I/O synchronization barriers, this commit disables hardware I/O coherency entirely. Future patches will re-enable it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: # v3.8+ Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn --- arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c index 3585cb394e9b..caa21e9b8cd9 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c @@ -246,9 +246,14 @@ static int coherency_type(void) return type; } +/* + * As a precaution, we currently completely disable hardware I/O + * coherency, until enough testing is done with automatic I/O + * synchronization barriers to validate that it is a proper solution. + */ int coherency_available(void) { - return coherency_type() != COHERENCY_FABRIC_TYPE_NONE; + return false; } int __init coherency_init(void) -- 2.39.2