[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] misc: sram: switch to ioremap_wc from ioremap

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:08:33AM +0000, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> Hi Abhilash,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2014, 08:28 +0530 schrieb Abhilash Kesavan:
> > Currently, the SRAM allocator returns device memory via ioremap.
> > This causes issues on ARM64 when the internal SoC SRAM allocated by
> > the generic sram driver is used for audio playback. The destination
> > buffer address (which is ioremapped SRAM) is not 64-bit aligned for
> > certain streams (e.g. 44.1k sampling rate). In such cases we get
> > unhandled alignment faults. Use ioremap_wc in place of ioremap which
> > gives us normal non-cacheable memory instead of device memory.
> 
> Could this break the omap_bus_sync() implementation in
> arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap4-common.c?
> 
>     void omap_bus_sync(void)
>     {
>             if (dram_sync && sram_sync) {
>                     writel_relaxed(readl_relaxed(dram_sync), dram_sync);
>                     writel_relaxed(readl_relaxed(sram_sync), sram_sync);
>                     isb();
>             }
>     }
> 
> It is used in wmb() and omap_do_wfi() to drain interconnect write
> buffers on omap4/5. If sram_sync is mapped with write-combining, could
> the last write to sram_sync stay stuck in the write-combining buffer
> until after the function returns?

I think you have that issue anyway, since you can get an early write
response even if you use ioremap. Does the write to sram_sync have
side-effects that we need to wait for?

Will