Commit b94342e7 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: 7161/1: errata: no automatic store buffer drain

commit 11ed0ba1 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: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent f8b35bff
......@@ -1332,6 +1332,18 @@ config ATAGS_PROC
Should the atags used to boot the kernel be exported in an "atags"
file in procfs. Useful with kexec.
config PL310_ERRATA_769419
bool "PL310 errata: no automatic Store Buffer drain"
depends on CACHE_L2X0
help
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 option adds a write barrier to the cpu_idle loop so that,
on systems with an outer cache, the store buffer is drained
explicitly.
endmenu
menu "CPU Power Management"
......
......@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
#endif
local_irq_disable();
#ifdef CONFIG_PL310_ERRATA_769419
wmb();
#endif
if (hlt_counter) {
local_irq_enable();
cpu_relax();
......
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