I'm using an MVME6100 with Linux 2.6.14 and experiencing what I think is a cache coherency problem. An external PCIX master performs a DMA transfer of a well known data pattern into SDRAM, but when the device driver goes to look at the data it is mostly okay, but occasionally has garbage.
I'm allocating the memory using alloc_skb, then giving a PCI translated pointer to the PCIX master. Since I think it is a cache coherency problem, I tried to use the dma_cache_inv macro to invalidate the cache before looking at the data, but realized that for this board, that function does nothing since CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE is undefined. So questions: 1) Should the processor bus cache snooping actually work on an MVME6100? E.g. is it correct that CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE is undefined? 1a) Does this type of bus snooping work when a bus master physically external to the PowerPC chip is doing the transfer? 2) If this really is a cache coherency problem, are there other cache management functions available in ppc linux besides the dma_cache_inv, dma_cache_wback, dma_cache_wback_inv macros I should be looking at? Tim
