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From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Carlo Pisani <carlojpisani@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-parisc <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: C3600, sata controller
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 19:21:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e2370bc-95e2-97fe-ebc8-7e6626d06deb@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+QBN9Did5PqWkp3rcCN15n+dFd11jqCe+L2q33sTr2d6Ow15g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Carlo,

On 17.05.19 17:43, Carlo Pisani wrote:
> guys, new tests(1) with SYBA-SY-PCX40009 on C3600
> tested on different slots: it always fails with the same behavior
> (1) http://www.downthebunker.com/reloaded/space/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=337&p=1663
>
> I really do not understand the random failure, because it seems
> working for a while, and then, it suddenly fails I don't know how to
> investigate.

Random failure could happen because of missing calls to DMA syncs in the driver.
PCI device drivers on PA-RISC require that you strictly follow the rules as mentioned in:
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
and
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/DMA-API.txt

Not following those rules may lead to the same device driver working on x86
but failing on parisc, simply because x86 is much more relaxed regarding DMA
and CPU caches.

That said, I would not expect every device driver to work out of the box
on parisc...

Helge

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-17 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-01 21:45 linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the parisc-hd tree Stephen Rothwell
2019-05-02  5:48 ` Helge Deller
2019-05-12 20:44   ` C3600, sata controller Carlo Pisani
2019-05-12 20:44     ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-12 20:49     ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-12 20:49       ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-12 21:10     ` John David Anglin
2019-05-12 21:15       ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-13 23:14         ` John David Anglin
2019-05-13 23:24           ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-13 23:47             ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-14  1:50               ` John David Anglin
2019-05-14  8:22                 ` Carlo Pisani
     [not found]                 ` <CA+QBN9CgMRFmv+isvH-Y=FCCFwKhmD5_5s5u32xg+wk-gTLK5A@mail.gmail.com>
2019-05-14 12:10                   ` John David Anglin
2019-05-14 12:29                     ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-14 12:57                       ` C3600, optical Fibre Channel, any card? Carlo Pisani
2019-05-14 13:01                       ` C3600, sata controller Sven Schnelle
2019-05-14 14:23                         ` John David Anglin
2019-05-17 15:43                           ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-17 17:21                             ` Helge Deller [this message]
2019-05-17 18:05                               ` John David Anglin
2019-05-17 18:25                                 ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-13 15:10     ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-13 15:10       ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-13 21:58       ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-17 17:31     ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-25  8:59     ` Carlo Pisani
2019-05-25  8:59       ` Carlo Pisani

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