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ARM: 7161/1: errata: no automatic store buffer drain
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:24:58 +0000 (17:24 +0100)
committerMaxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@oracle.com>
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:14:24 +0000 (17:14 -0800)
commit1049eb2846dcf24eb8b6cdb563953055f67cafc4
tree96d79ae5d449eeebc1db2797623684b20a28084a
parent00d0c06c0830dc3912701313fd4695d4452cf838
ARM: 7161/1: errata: no automatic store buffer drain

commit 11ed0ba1754841316d4095478944300acf19acc3 upstream.

This patch implements a workaround for PL310 erratum 769419. On
revisions of the PL310 prior to r3p2, the Store Buffer does not
automatically drain. This can cause normal, non-cacheable writes to be
retained when the memory system is idle, leading to suboptimal I/O
performance for drivers using coherent DMA.

This patch adds an optional wmb() call to the cpu_idle loop. On systems
with an outer cache, this causes an explicit flush of the store buffer.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/arm/Kconfig
arch/arm/kernel/process.c