Re: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

[Scott Wood]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Scott Wood wrote:
> > Chris Pringle wrote:
> > > Ah right - that would explain what we're seeing then... Doh. Thought I 
> > > might have been onto something then. Is there any way to force a cache 
> > > flush? That'd at least prove it was a caching issue if it resolved the 
> > > problem.
> > You could enable CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE.
>
> If the whole system is noncoherent, that is the right solution.

I meant it more as a test than a permanent solution...

> If the
> device is the only one, you can also use dma_alloc_noncoherent() and
> flush explicitly with dma_cache_sync().

I don't see how that would help -- aren't those also controlled by 
CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE?

-Scott
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