ARM: mvebu: fix HW I/O coherency related deadlocks

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Until now, our understanding for HW I/O coherency to work on the
Cortex-A9 based Marvell SoC was that only the PCIe regions should be
mapped strongly-ordered. However, we were still encountering some
deadlocks, especially when testing the CESA crypto engine. After
checking with the HW designers, it was concluded that all the MMIO
registers should be mapped as strongly ordered for the HW I/O coherency
mechanism to work properly.

This fixes some easy to reproduce deadlocks with the CESA crypto engine
driver (dmcrypt on a sufficiently large disk partition).

Tested-by: Terry Stockert <stockert@inkblotadmirer.me>
Tested-by: Romain Perier <romain.perier@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Terry Stockert <stockert@inkblotadmirer.me>
Cc: Romain Perier <romain.perier@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Thomas Petazzoni 2016-06-16 15:42:25 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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