linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH kernel v11 20/34] powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Move TCE kill register address to PE

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Date:	Mon, 1 Jun 2015 16:47:14 +1000
From:	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
To:	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v11 20/34] powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Move TCE kill
 register address to PE

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 06:44:44PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> At the moment the DMA setup code looks for the "ibm,opal-tce-kill"
> property which contains the TCE kill register address. Writing to
> this register invalidates TCE cache on IODA/IODA2 hub.
> 
> This moves the register address from iommu_table to pnv_pnb as this
> register belongs to PHB and invalidates TCE cache for all tables of
> all attached PEs.
> 
> This moves the property reading/remapping code to a helper which is
> called when DMA is being configured for PE and which does DMA setup
> for both IODA1 and IODA2.
> 
> This adds a new pnv_pci_ioda2_tce_invalidate_entire() helper which
> invalidates cache for the entire table. It should be called after
> every call to opal_pci_map_pe_dma_window(). It was not required before
> because there was just a single TCE table and 64bit DMA was handled via
> bypass window (which has no table so no cache was used) but this is going
> to change with Dynamic DMA windows (DDW).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>

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