[PATCH 3.18 33/61] ARM: mvebu: completely disable hardware I/O coherency

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 8f1e8ee28660018a935c7576b9af8ffe1feab54c upstream.

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 <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/coherency.c
@@ -398,9 +398,14 @@ 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)


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