Re: [PATCH 02/24] ARM: l2c: Serialize device reads with cache maintenance when requested

[Navid Ghahremani <ghahramani.navid@gmail.com>]

Hi Arnd,

Thank you very much for reviewing this and pointing out arm,outer-sync-disable.

To answer your questions honestly:

1. Origin: This was developed purely through trial and error debugging on the physical ZTE ZXHN H3600 hardware. During initial bring up with the MT7915 Wifi 6 card, heavy DMA traffic caused MCU firmware timeouts and froze the PCIe bus when register reads collided with L2 maintenance. My early tests without the lock froze every time, which led me to devise this custom locking mechanism.
2. arm,outer-sync-disable: I was honestly not aware of this existing mechanism. This is my first upstream Linux SoC submission (and returning to C systems programming after many years), so I am still getting up to speed with modern kernel architecture conventions. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction and bearing with me!
3. Testing: I will test arm,outer-sync-disable on the physical router shortly and verify whether disabling outer-sync avoids the interconnect deadlock under heavy WiFi traffic. If it works, I will gladly drop patches 01, 02, and 03 completely in favor of the standard DT property.

I will report back with the hardware test results soon.

Best regards,
Navid