[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] net/designware: make driver compatible with data cache
Stefan Roese
sr at denx.de
Wed Jan 22 17:55:06 CET 2014
Hi Alexey,
On 22.01.2014 17:49, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
>
> Up until now this driver only worked with data cache disabled.
> To make it work with enabled data cache following changes were required:
>
> * Flush Tx/Rx buffer descriptors their modification
> * Invalidate Tx/Rx buffer descriptors before reading its values
> * Flush cache for data passed from CPU to GMAC
> * Invalidate cache for data passed from GMAC to CPU
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
A small nitpicking comment below.
> Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
> Cc: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar at st.com>
> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> Cc: Mischa Jonker <mjonker at synopsys.com>
> Cc: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim at st.com>
> Cc: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>
> Cc: Amit Virdi <amit.virdi at st.com>
> Cc: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang at analog.com>
>
> Compared to v2:
> 1. Removed trailing white space
> ---
> drivers/net/designware.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/designware.c b/drivers/net/designware.c
> index 22155b4..c0c8659 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/designware.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/designware.c
> @@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ static void tx_descs_init(struct eth_device *dev)
> /* Correcting the last pointer of the chain */
> desc_p->dmamac_next = &desc_table_p[0];
>
> + /* Flush all Tx buffer descriptors at once */
> + flush_dcache_range((unsigned int)priv->tx_mac_descrtable,
> + (unsigned int)priv->tx_mac_descrtable +
> + sizeof(priv->tx_mac_descrtable));
> +
> writel((ulong)&desc_table_p[0], &dma_p->txdesclistaddr);
> }
>
> @@ -63,6 +68,15 @@ static void rx_descs_init(struct eth_device *dev)
> struct dmamacdescr *desc_p;
> u32 idx;
>
> + /* Before passing buffers to GMAC we need to make sure zeros
> + * written there right after "priv" structure allocation were
> + * flushed into RAM.
> + * Otherwise there's a chance to get some of them flushed in RAM when
> + * GMAC is already pushing data to RAM via DMA. This way incoming from
> + * GMAC data will be corrupted. */
Please use this recommended multi-line comment style:
/*
* Before ...
* ...
*
* ... will be corrupted.
*/
Thanks,
Stefan
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