Re: [PATCH 6/7] k3dma: Fix occasional DMA ERR issue by using proper dma api

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:27:02PM +0800, Andy Green wrote:
> On July 21, 2016 1:22:02 PM GMT+08:00, John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:26 PM, zhangfei <zhangfei.gao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please fix your mail client to word wrap within paragraphs at something
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> >> How about using wmb() flush before start dma to sync desc?

> >So I'm not going to pretend to be an expert here, but my understanding
> >is that wmb() syncrhonizes cpu write ordering operations across cpus,

> IIUI what the memory barrier does is tell the *compiler* to actually
> do any writes that the code asked for, but which otherwise might
> actually be deferred past that point.  The compiler doesn't know that
> buffer area has other hardware snooping it, so by default it feels it
> can play tricks with what seems to it like just generally deferring
> spilling registers to memory.  wmb makes sure the compiler's pending
> writes actually happen right there.  (writel() etc definitions have
> one built-in, so they always do what you asked when you asked).

You might be interested in Mark Rutland's talk from ELC (Stale data, or
how we (mis-)manage modern caches):

    http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/slides_17.pdf
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0SlIMHRnLk

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