Microblaze, DMA and cache: Lack of sync functions?

From: Eli Billauer
Date: Sat Aug 13 2011 - 06:23:46 EST


Hello,


Before I make a needless hack, please correct me if I'm wrong: in arch/microblaze/kernel/dma.c, the sync_single_for_cpu, sync_single_for_device and friends are not set in the dma_direct_ops structure (and not implemented), so calls from drivers to the corresponding functions will do nothing. Since the Microblaze cache doesn't update automatically on DMA operations, this looks like a bug to me: The driver thinks the cache has been flushed or updated, but it actually hasn't.


Map and unmap methods are indeed implemented and registered, and they both call an internal function to sync the cache. So why are there no sync functions?

To hack or not to hack?

Eli

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