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<title>ARC: define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN = 8</title>
<updated>2019-02-27T09:08:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>abrodkin@synopsys.com</email>
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<published>2019-02-08T10:55:19+00:00</published>
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commit b6835ea77729e7faf4656ca637ba53f42b8ee3fd upstream.

The default value of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN in "include/linux/slab.h" is
"__alignof__(unsigned long long)" which for ARC unexpectedly turns out
to be 4. This is not a compiler bug, but as defined by ARC ABI [1]

Thus slab allocator would allocate a struct which is 32-bit aligned,
which is generally OK even if struct has long long members.
There was however potetial problem when it had any atomic64_t which
use LLOCKD/SCONDD instructions which are required by ISA to take
64-bit addresses. This is the problem we ran into

[    4.015732] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[    4.167881] Misaligned Access
[    4.172356] Path: /bin/busybox.nosuid
[    4.176004] CPU: 2 PID: 171 Comm: rm Not tainted 4.19.14-yocto-standard #1
[    4.182851]
[    4.182851] [ECR   ]: 0x000d0000 =&gt; Check Programmer's Manual
[    4.190061] [EFA   ]: 0xbeaec3fc
[    4.190061] [BLINK ]: ext4_delete_entry+0x210/0x234
[    4.190061] [ERET  ]: ext4_delete_entry+0x13e/0x234
[    4.202985] [STAT32]: 0x80080002 : IE K
[    4.207236] BTA: 0x9009329c   SP: 0xbe5b1ec4  FP: 0x00000000
[    4.212790] LPS: 0x9074b118  LPE: 0x9074b120 LPC: 0x00000000
[    4.218348] r00: 0x00000040  r01: 0x00000021 r02: 0x00000001
...
...
[    4.270510] Stack Trace:
[    4.274510]   ext4_delete_entry+0x13e/0x234
[    4.278695]   ext4_rmdir+0xe0/0x238
[    4.282187]   vfs_rmdir+0x50/0xf0
[    4.285492]   do_rmdir+0x9e/0x154
[    4.288802]   EV_Trap+0x110/0x114

The fix is to make sure slab allocations are 64-bit aligned.

Do note that atomic64_t is __attribute__((aligned(8)) which means gcc
does generate 64-bit aligned references, relative to beginning of
container struct. However the issue is if the container itself is not
64-bit aligned, atomic64_t ends up unaligned which is what this patch
ensures.

[1] https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/toolchain/wiki/files/ARCv2_ABI.pdf

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: reworked changelog, added dependency on LL64+LLSC]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b6835ea77729e7faf4656ca637ba53f42b8ee3fd upstream.

The default value of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN in "include/linux/slab.h" is
"__alignof__(unsigned long long)" which for ARC unexpectedly turns out
to be 4. This is not a compiler bug, but as defined by ARC ABI [1]

Thus slab allocator would allocate a struct which is 32-bit aligned,
which is generally OK even if struct has long long members.
There was however potetial problem when it had any atomic64_t which
use LLOCKD/SCONDD instructions which are required by ISA to take
64-bit addresses. This is the problem we ran into

[    4.015732] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[    4.167881] Misaligned Access
[    4.172356] Path: /bin/busybox.nosuid
[    4.176004] CPU: 2 PID: 171 Comm: rm Not tainted 4.19.14-yocto-standard #1
[    4.182851]
[    4.182851] [ECR   ]: 0x000d0000 =&gt; Check Programmer's Manual
[    4.190061] [EFA   ]: 0xbeaec3fc
[    4.190061] [BLINK ]: ext4_delete_entry+0x210/0x234
[    4.190061] [ERET  ]: ext4_delete_entry+0x13e/0x234
[    4.202985] [STAT32]: 0x80080002 : IE K
[    4.207236] BTA: 0x9009329c   SP: 0xbe5b1ec4  FP: 0x00000000
[    4.212790] LPS: 0x9074b118  LPE: 0x9074b120 LPC: 0x00000000
[    4.218348] r00: 0x00000040  r01: 0x00000021 r02: 0x00000001
...
...
[    4.270510] Stack Trace:
[    4.274510]   ext4_delete_entry+0x13e/0x234
[    4.278695]   ext4_rmdir+0xe0/0x238
[    4.282187]   vfs_rmdir+0x50/0xf0
[    4.285492]   do_rmdir+0x9e/0x154
[    4.288802]   EV_Trap+0x110/0x114

The fix is to make sure slab allocations are 64-bit aligned.

Do note that atomic64_t is __attribute__((aligned(8)) which means gcc
does generate 64-bit aligned references, relative to beginning of
container struct. However the issue is if the container itself is not
64-bit aligned, atomic64_t ends up unaligned which is what this patch
ensures.

[1] https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/toolchain/wiki/files/ARCv2_ABI.pdf

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: reworked changelog, added dependency on LL64+LLSC]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ARC: dma [non-IOC] setup SMP_CACHE_BYTES and cache_line_size</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T07:26:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugeniy Paltsev</name>
<email>Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-26T13:15:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit eb2777397fd83a4a7eaa26984d09d3babb845d2a ]

As for today we don't setup SMP_CACHE_BYTES and cache_line_size for
ARC, so they are set to L1_CACHE_BYTES by default. L1 line length
(L1_CACHE_BYTES) might be easily smaller than L2 line (which is
usually the case BTW). This breaks code.

For example this breaks ethernet infrastructure on HSDK/AXS103 boards
with IOC disabled, involving manual cache flushes
Functions which alloc and manage sk_buff packet data area rely on
SMP_CACHE_BYTES define. In the result we can share last L2 cache
line in sk_buff linear packet data area between DMA buffer and
some useful data in other structure. So we can lose this data when
we invalidate DMA buffer.

   sk_buff linear packet data area
                |
                |
                |         skb-&gt;end        skb-&gt;tail
                V            |                |
                             V                V
----------------------------------------------.
      packet data            | &lt;tail padding&gt; |  &lt;useful data in other struct&gt;
----------------------------------------------.

---------------------.--------------------------------------------------.
     SLC line        |             SLC (L2 cache) line (128B)           |
---------------------.--------------------------------------------------.
        ^                                     ^
        |                                     |
     These cache lines will be invalidated when we invalidate skb
     linear packet data area before DMA transaction starting.

This leads to issues painful to debug as it reproduces only if
(sk_buff-&gt;end - sk_buff-&gt;tail) &lt; SLC_LINE_SIZE and
if we have some useful data right after sk_buff-&gt;end.

Fix that by hardcode SMP_CACHE_BYTES to max line length we may have.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit eb2777397fd83a4a7eaa26984d09d3babb845d2a ]

As for today we don't setup SMP_CACHE_BYTES and cache_line_size for
ARC, so they are set to L1_CACHE_BYTES by default. L1 line length
(L1_CACHE_BYTES) might be easily smaller than L2 line (which is
usually the case BTW). This breaks code.

For example this breaks ethernet infrastructure on HSDK/AXS103 boards
with IOC disabled, involving manual cache flushes
Functions which alloc and manage sk_buff packet data area rely on
SMP_CACHE_BYTES define. In the result we can share last L2 cache
line in sk_buff linear packet data area between DMA buffer and
some useful data in other structure. So we can lose this data when
we invalidate DMA buffer.

   sk_buff linear packet data area
                |
                |
                |         skb-&gt;end        skb-&gt;tail
                V            |                |
                             V                V
----------------------------------------------.
      packet data            | &lt;tail padding&gt; |  &lt;useful data in other struct&gt;
----------------------------------------------.

---------------------.--------------------------------------------------.
     SLC line        |             SLC (L2 cache) line (128B)           |
---------------------.--------------------------------------------------.
        ^                                     ^
        |                                     |
     These cache lines will be invalidated when we invalidate skb
     linear packet data area before DMA transaction starting.

This leads to issues painful to debug as it reproduces only if
(sk_buff-&gt;end - sk_buff-&gt;tail) &lt; SLC_LINE_SIZE and
if we have some useful data right after sk_buff-&gt;end.

Fix that by hardcode SMP_CACHE_BYTES to max line length we may have.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev &lt;Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCv2: SLC: provide a line based flush routine for debugging</title>
<updated>2017-08-30T16:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T04:53:27+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARC: Hardcode ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to max line length we may have</title>
<updated>2017-08-30T16:21:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>alexey.brodkin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-18T14:31:24+00:00</published>
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Current implementation relies on L1 line length which might easily
be smaller than L2 line (which is usually the case BTW).

Imagine this typical case: L2 line is 128 bytes while L1 line is
64-bytes. Now we want to allocate small buffer and later use it for DMA
(consider IOC is not available).

kmalloc() allocates small KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE-sized, KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE-aligned
That way if buffer happens to be aligned to L1 line and not L2 line we'll be
flushing and invalidating extra portions of data from L2 which will cause
cache coherency issues.

And since KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE is bound to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN the fix could
be simple - set ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to the largest cache line we may ever
get. As of today neither L1 of ARC700 and ARC HS38 nor SLC might not be
longer than 128 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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Current implementation relies on L1 line length which might easily
be smaller than L2 line (which is usually the case BTW).

Imagine this typical case: L2 line is 128 bytes while L1 line is
64-bytes. Now we want to allocate small buffer and later use it for DMA
(consider IOC is not available).

kmalloc() allocates small KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE-sized, KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE-aligned
That way if buffer happens to be aligned to L1 line and not L2 line we'll be
flushing and invalidating extra portions of data from L2 which will cause
cache coherency issues.

And since KMALLOC_MIN_SIZE is bound to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN the fix could
be simple - set ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to the largest cache line we may ever
get. As of today neither L1 of ARC700 and ARC HS38 nor SLC might not be
longer than 128 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCv2: PAE40: Explicitly set MSB counterpart of SLC region ops addresses</title>
<updated>2017-08-04T08:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Brodkin</name>
<email>Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T09:58:47+00:00</published>
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It is necessary to explicitly set both SLC_AUX_RGN_START1 and SLC_AUX_RGN_END1
which hold MSB bits of the physical address correspondingly of region start
and end otherwise SLC region operation is executed in unpredictable manner

Without this patch, SLC flushes on HSDK (IOC disabled) were taking
seconds.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org   #4.4+
Reported-by: Vladimir Kondratiev &lt;vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: PAR40 regs only written if PAE40 exist]
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It is necessary to explicitly set both SLC_AUX_RGN_START1 and SLC_AUX_RGN_END1
which hold MSB bits of the physical address correspondingly of region start
and end otherwise SLC region operation is executed in unpredictable manner

Without this patch, SLC flushes on HSDK (IOC disabled) were taking
seconds.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org   #4.4+
Reported-by: Vladimir Kondratiev &lt;vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin &lt;abrodkin@synopsys.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
[vgupta: PAR40 regs only written if PAE40 exist]
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCv2: mm: micro-optimize region flush generated code</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T23:40:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T23:23:57+00:00</published>
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DC_CTRL.RGN_OP is 3 bits wide, however only 1 bit is used in current
programming model (0: flush, 1: invalidate)

The current code targetting 3 bits leads to additional 8 byte AND
operation which can be elided given that only 1 bit is ever set by
software and/or looked at by hardware

before
------

| 80b63324 &lt;__dma_cache_wback_inv_l1&gt;:
| 80b63324:	clri	r3
| 80b63328:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b6332c:	and	r2,r2,0xfffff1ff	&lt;--- 8 bytes insn
| 80b63334:	or	r2,r2,576
| 80b63338:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| ...
| ...
| 80b63360 &lt;__dma_cache_inv_l1&gt;:
| 80b63360:	clri	r3
| 80b63364:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b63368:	and	r2,r2,0xfffff1ff	&lt;--- 8 bytes insn
| 80b63370:	bset_s	r2,r2,0x9
| 80b63372:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| ...
| ...
| 80b6338c &lt;__dma_cache_wback_l1&gt;:
| 80b6338c:	clri	r3
| 80b63390:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b63394:	and	r2,r2,0xfffff1ff	&lt;--- 8 bytes insn
| 80b6339c:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]

after (AND elided totally in 2 cases, replaced with 2 byte BCLR in 3rd)
-----

| 80b63324 &lt;__dma_cache_wback_inv_l1&gt;:
| 80b63324:	clri	r3
| 80b63328:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b6332c:	or	r2,r2,576
| 80b63330:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| ...
| ...
| 80b63358 &lt;__dma_cache_inv_l1&gt;:
| 80b63358:	clri	r3
| 80b6335c:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b63360:	bset_s	r2,r2,0x9
| 80b63362:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| ...
| ...
| 80b6337c &lt;__dma_cache_wback_l1&gt;:
| 80b6337c:	clri	r3
| 80b63380:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b63384:	bclr_s	r2,r2,0x9
| 80b63386:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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DC_CTRL.RGN_OP is 3 bits wide, however only 1 bit is used in current
programming model (0: flush, 1: invalidate)

The current code targetting 3 bits leads to additional 8 byte AND
operation which can be elided given that only 1 bit is ever set by
software and/or looked at by hardware

before
------

| 80b63324 &lt;__dma_cache_wback_inv_l1&gt;:
| 80b63324:	clri	r3
| 80b63328:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b6332c:	and	r2,r2,0xfffff1ff	&lt;--- 8 bytes insn
| 80b63334:	or	r2,r2,576
| 80b63338:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| ...
| ...
| 80b63360 &lt;__dma_cache_inv_l1&gt;:
| 80b63360:	clri	r3
| 80b63364:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b63368:	and	r2,r2,0xfffff1ff	&lt;--- 8 bytes insn
| 80b63370:	bset_s	r2,r2,0x9
| 80b63372:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| ...
| ...
| 80b6338c &lt;__dma_cache_wback_l1&gt;:
| 80b6338c:	clri	r3
| 80b63390:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b63394:	and	r2,r2,0xfffff1ff	&lt;--- 8 bytes insn
| 80b6339c:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]

after (AND elided totally in 2 cases, replaced with 2 byte BCLR in 3rd)
-----

| 80b63324 &lt;__dma_cache_wback_inv_l1&gt;:
| 80b63324:	clri	r3
| 80b63328:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b6332c:	or	r2,r2,576
| 80b63330:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| ...
| ...
| 80b63358 &lt;__dma_cache_inv_l1&gt;:
| 80b63358:	clri	r3
| 80b6335c:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b63360:	bset_s	r2,r2,0x9
| 80b63362:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| ...
| ...
| 80b6337c &lt;__dma_cache_wback_l1&gt;:
| 80b6337c:	clri	r3
| 80b63380:	lr	r2,[dc_ctrl]
| 80b63384:	bclr_s	r2,r2,0x9
| 80b63386:	sr	r2,[dc_ctrl]

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCv2: mm: Implement cache region flush operations</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T22:57:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-29T05:25:15+00:00</published>
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These are more efficient than the per-line ops

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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These are more efficient than the per-line ops

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCv2: IOC: Adhere to progamming model guidelines to avoid DMA corruption</title>
<updated>2017-01-18T22:48:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-22T10:31:19+00:00</published>
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On AXS103 release bitfiles, DMA data corruptions were seen because IOC
setup was not following the recommended way in documentation.

Flipping IOC on when caches are enabled or coherency transactions are in
flight, might cause some of the memory operations to not observe
coherency as expected.

So strictly follow the programming model recommendations as documented
in comment header above arc_ioc_setup()

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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On AXS103 release bitfiles, DMA data corruptions were seen because IOC
setup was not following the recommended way in documentation.

Flipping IOC on when caches are enabled or coherency transactions are in
flight, might cause some of the memory operations to not observe
coherency as expected.

So strictly follow the programming model recommendations as documented
in comment header above arc_ioc_setup()

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<title>ARCv2: IOC: refactor the IOC and SLC operations into own functions</title>
<updated>2017-01-18T22:35:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-22T10:13:22+00:00</published>
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 - Move IOC setup into arc_ioc_setup()
 - Move SLC disabling into arc_slc_disable()

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 - Move IOC setup into arc_ioc_setup()
 - Move SLC disabling into arc_slc_disable()

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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<title>ARCv2: IOC: use @ioc_enable not @ioc_exist where intended</title>
<updated>2016-10-24T16:24:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineet Gupta</name>
<email>vgupta@synopsys.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-13T22:58:59+00:00</published>
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if user disables IOC from debugger at startup (by clearing @ioc_enable),
@ioc_exists is cleared too. This means boot prints don't capture the
fact that IOC was present but disabled which could be misleading.

So invert how we use @ioc_enable and @ioc_exists and make it more
canonical. @ioc_exists represent whether hardware is present or not and
stays same whether enabled or not. @ioc_enable is still user driven,
but will be auto-disabled if IOC hardware is not present, i.e. if
@ioc_exist=0. This is opposite to what we were doing before, but much
clearer.

This means @ioc_enable is now the "exported" toggle in rest of code such
as dma mapping API.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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if user disables IOC from debugger at startup (by clearing @ioc_enable),
@ioc_exists is cleared too. This means boot prints don't capture the
fact that IOC was present but disabled which could be misleading.

So invert how we use @ioc_enable and @ioc_exists and make it more
canonical. @ioc_exists represent whether hardware is present or not and
stays same whether enabled or not. @ioc_enable is still user driven,
but will be auto-disabled if IOC hardware is not present, i.e. if
@ioc_exist=0. This is opposite to what we were doing before, but much
clearer.

This means @ioc_enable is now the "exported" toggle in rest of code such
as dma mapping API.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
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