Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: nbpfaxi: add optional max-burst property for memory reads/writes

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Sun Nov 13 2016 - 23:29:16 EST


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 03:29:15PM +0200, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Due to a hardware bug, reading memory (from the Accelerator Coherency Port)
> with a burst size equal to the maximum burst size allowed by the DMA
> hardware's buffer size will cause a hardware hang on the ARTPEC-6 SoC,
> where the only solution is a manual power cycle.
> On ARTPEC-6, this hardware bug does not trigger when writing memory (to the
> Accelerator Coherency Port) with a burst size equal to the maximum burst
> size allowed by the DMA hardware's buffer size.
>
> To avoid this hardware hang, introduce a new optional max-burst property
> for memory reads. For completeness, also introduce a max-burst property for
> memory writes.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod