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Date:   Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:49:49 +0000
From:   Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>
To:     Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
        Lars Persson <lists@...h.nu>,
        Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@...aro.org>
CC:     Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com" 
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        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        linux-tegra <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net: stmmac: Introducing support for Page
 Pool

From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
Date: Jul/23/2019, 11:38:33 (UTC+00:00)

> 
> On 23/07/2019 11:07, Jose Abreu wrote:
> > From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>
> > Date: Jul/23/2019, 11:01:24 (UTC+00:00)
> > 
> >> This appears to be a winner and by disabling the SMMU for the ethernet
> >> controller and reverting commit 954a03be033c7cef80ddc232e7cbdb17df735663
> >> this worked! So yes appears to be related to the SMMU being enabled. We
> >> had to enable the SMMU for ethernet recently due to commit
> >> 954a03be033c7cef80ddc232e7cbdb17df735663.
> > 
> > Finally :)
> > 
> > However, from "git show 954a03be033c7cef80ddc232e7cbdb17df735663":
> > 
> > +         There are few reasons to allow unmatched stream bypass, and
> > +         even fewer good ones.  If saying YES here breaks your board
> > +         you should work on fixing your board.
> > 
> > So, how can we fix this ? Is your ethernet DT node marked as 
> > "dma-coherent;" ?
> 
> TBH I have no idea. I can't say I fully understand your change or how it
> is breaking things for us.
> 
> Currently, the Tegra DT binding does not have 'dma-coherent' set. I see
> this is optional, but I am not sure how you determine whether or not
> this should be set.

From my understanding it means that your device / IP DMA accesses are coherent regarding the CPU point of view. I think it will be the case if GMAC is not behind any kind of IOMMU in the HW arch.

I don't know about this SMMU but the source does have some special 
conditions when device is dma-coherent.

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Thanks,
Jose Miguel Abreu