From 0e536582b321cd52c7e82c3746ff27fe3f876821 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:03:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Add SYNC after cacheflush

On processors with deep write buffers, it is likely that many cycles
will pass between a CACHE instruction and the time the data actually
gets written out to DRAM.  Add a SYNC instruction to ensure that the
buffers get emptied before the flush functions return.

Actual problem seen in the wild:

1) dma_alloc_coherent() allocates cached memory

2) memset() is called to clear the new pages

3) dma_cache_wback_inv() is called to flush the zero data out to memory

4) dma_alloc_coherent() returns an uncached (kseg1) pointer to the
freshly allocated pages

5) Caller writes data through the kseg1 pointer

6) Buffered writeback data finally gets flushed out to DRAM

7) Part of caller's data is inexplicably zeroed out

This patch adds SYNC between steps 3 and 4, which fixed the problem.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork:
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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