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

[Tony Lindgren]

* Abhilash Kesavan <kesavan.abhilash at gmail.com> [141217 04:37]:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:40:46AM +0000, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> >> Hi Will,
> >>
> >> Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2014, 10:39 +0000 schrieb 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?
> >>
> >> [Added Tony Lindgren and Santosh Shilimkar to Cc:]
> >> I don't know.
> >
> > In addition to Will's question, do you care about the access size?
> > ioremap() returns Device memory which is bufferable (early
> > acknowledgement) but it guarantees the access size. With write
> > combining, you may get a different access size than requested.
> 
> From the existing dts files, omap, imx, rockchip and exynos seem to be
> the only users of the sram allocator code. I have tested this on
> Exynos5420, Exynos5800 and Exynos7; there is no change in behavior
> seen on these boards. Tested-by for other SoCs would be appreciated.

Sorry for the delay, these seems to boot OK on omap4, so from that
point of view:

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>