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From: "Pravin Bathija" <pbathija@amcc.com>
To: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andrea Zypchen <azypchen@intldata.ca>,
	lebon@lebon.org.ua, Prodyut Hazarika <phazarika@amcc.com>,
	tburns@datacast.com, Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, azilkie@datacast.com
Subject: RE: AW: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:23:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9D1E2BDCB5C57B46B56E6D80843439EB0580C929@SDCEXCHANGE01.ad.amcc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1252647621.8566.67.camel@pasglop

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Do you know many drivers that do config space accesses without using
> the config space accessors ?

> Such drivers should be banned to oblivion.

> Cheers,
> Ben.

I'm not aware of such drivers in the 2.6.30+ kernel.
 
Thanks,
Pravin

On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 22:35 -0700, Pravin Bathija wrote:
> Thanks Stefan. The whole intention of the patch/hack (or whatever one
> might call it :) ) was to avoid rogue drivers from setting
> pci_cache_line_size to non-zero value even though the underlying
> hardware doesn't support MRM calls. Nonetheless this approach works
> only if the drivers use the kernel API for PCI config space access
> provided by the powerpc platform driver.
>




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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-11  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-02 21:22 AW: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?) Adam Zilkie
2009-09-03  8:05 ` Chris Pringle
2009-09-03  9:57   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-03 16:04     ` Adam Zilkie
2009-09-03 16:21       ` Josh Boyer
2009-09-03 20:27       ` Prodyut Hazarika
2009-09-08 18:01         ` Adam Zilkie
2009-09-08 18:59           ` Prodyut Hazarika
2009-09-08 19:30             ` Adam Zilkie
2009-09-08 19:56               ` Prodyut Hazarika
2009-09-08 20:00                 ` Adam Zilkie
2009-09-09  1:34                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-08 21:34               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-09 13:28             ` Mikhail Zolotaryov
2009-09-09 13:43               ` Tom Burns
2009-09-09 14:12                 ` Mikhail Zolotaryov
2009-09-09 14:10                   ` Tom Burns
2009-09-09 14:40                     ` Mikhail Zolotaryov
2009-09-11  1:57                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-11  7:17                         ` Mikhail Zolotaryov
2009-09-11  7:31                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-11  1:57                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-10 19:53                   ` Tom Burns
2009-09-10 20:30                     ` Pravin Bathija
2009-09-11  2:44                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-11  5:12                         ` Stefan Roese
2009-09-11  5:17                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-11  5:25                             ` Stefan Roese
2009-09-11  5:35                               ` Pravin Bathija
2009-09-11  5:40                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-11  9:23                                   ` Pravin Bathija [this message]
2009-09-11  1:59                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-11 16:05                     ` Prodyut Hazarika
2009-09-11  1:55                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-11 13:51                   ` Tom Burns
2009-09-08 21:29           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-03 12:20   ` Wrobel Heinz-R39252
2009-09-03 12:43     ` Chris Pringle
2009-09-06 21:32     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-03 15:54   ` Adam Zilkie
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-16 13:58 Chris Pringle
2009-06-16 16:21 ` Scott Wood
2009-06-16 16:34   ` Chris Pringle
2009-06-16 16:46     ` Scott Wood
2009-06-16 16:57       ` Chris Pringle
2009-06-16 17:03         ` Scott Wood
2009-06-17  7:58           ` Chris Pringle
2009-06-17 13:18             ` Chris Pringle
2009-06-18 11:24               ` Chris Pringle
2009-06-22 14:31                 ` AW: " Sergej.Stepanov
2009-06-22 14:31                   ` Sergej.Stepanov
2009-06-29  8:11                   ` Chris Pringle

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