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Message-ID: <c384c5ea0906161813v26b3a739h8ce36e395841df35@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:13:07 +0200
From:	Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>, arnd@...db.de,
	scottwood@...escale.com, chris.pringle@...el.com,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

Hello Benjamin,

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Benjamin
Herrenschmidt<benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 02:56 +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>> I use pci_map_sg(), have the device perform either DMA master reads or
>> writes to the bus address using PCIe.
>> After that, I use pci_unmap_sg().
>>
>> My assumption is that pci_unmap_sg() either makes the cache coherent
>> or invalidated and thus I do not need to take further actions.
>> This is on a MPC83xx or 85xx system.
>>
>> Is this assumption correct?
>
> It is, as far as I understand things :-) Those APIs are fun.
>
> You should only need the explicit sync calls if you are going to peek or
> poke at the DMA mapped memory before you unmap it.
>
Thanks, then at least I understand things in the corr^H^H^H^Hsame way :-)

And btw, I hadn't seen any data mismatch yet.

Regards,
-- 
Leon 'likewise' Woestenberg
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