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On 2009-08-03, at 17:59, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

> On Monday 03 August 2009 17:01:37 Rafal Jaworowski wrote:
>> Hans,
>> So how do you want to proceed with these cache sync issues? We need  
>> to
>> fix this before 8.0.
>
> Hi,
>
> CC'ed current: We have a case on ARM where bus_dmamap_sync() is not  
> suffient
> to update the CPU cache. One reason for this is that USB needs to  
> invalidate

It's not only ARM, but some MIPS and PowerPC observe this as well;  
actually I'd expect any system with non-coherent DMA will suffer from  
this with current USB stack.

> the same memory area multiple times. Busdma sync expects paired  
> operation when
> using the PRE and POST flags, from what I understand. I do not  
> consider this
> an USB issue, hence Semihalf has got the USB stack working by manually
> inserting CPU flush/invalidate calls into usb_pc_cpu_invalidate() and
> usb_pc_cpu_flush(). Their other solution however which modifies the
> bus_dmamap_sync() flags will break on platforms with more than 4  
> GByte of
> memory.
>
> Maybe Rafal can give a quick summar to new people at the -current  
> list, or see
> previous thread on the ARM mailing list.

This issue was discussed already: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=50307+0+archive/2009/freebsd-usb/20090628.freebsd-usb
See also the beginning of this thread: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=10461+0+archive/2009/freebsd-arm/20090726.freebsd-arm

Rafal