On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 20:27 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
This was a sheer luck this ever worked. Looking at the entire driver, to fix all your issues with DMA and caches, it would be sufficient to re-align "struct dw_eth_dev" properly.
See drivers/net/designware.h:
- struct dmamacdescr {} is already __aligned(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN) => This structure, if aligned in memory to proper boundary, can be flushed/ invalidated without problems.
- struct dw_eth_dev {} can be aligned to ANY 4-byte boundary But this structure contains two arrays of struct dmamacdescr {} , which each have their elements' lenght aligned to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
Solution:
Your patch [1/3] and reorder the structure in designware.h so that the struct dmamacdescr tx_mac_descrtable[] struct dmamacdescr rx_mac_descrtable[] are first and anything that does not need to be aligned follows. This way, the DMA descriptors will always be aligned and you need not worry about the flushes. You don't even need to ROUNDUP their length, since they are already fine.
That sounds like a good plan. I'll take a look.
When reordering the struct dw_eth_dev {}, make sure to add a comment about the alignment.
Of course.
Ian.