ARM: mvebu: completely disable hardware I/O coherency
authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:11:27 +0000 (17:11 +0100)
committerAndrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Sat, 17 Jan 2015 17:46:55 +0000 (11:46 -0600)
The current hardware I/O coherency is known to cause problems with DMA
coherent buffers, as it still requires explicit I/O synchronization
barriers, which is not compatible with the semantics expected by the
Linux DMA coherent buffers API.

So, in order to have enough time to validate a new solution based on
automatic I/O synchronization barriers, this commit disables hardware
I/O coherency entirely. Future patches will re-enable it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.8+
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>

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