Hi,
I am new in this community, please let me introduce the context.
We are developing PCIe based devices that have been tested with INTEL root
complex so far, where they are fully operational. We are evaluating ARM platforms,
esp. the IMX6 SOLO cpu. We are using a Q7 board from CONGATECH. We are
using LINUX_3_0_35 as provided by FREESCALE.
The basic tests (PCIe word based read/write from the LINUX host) work, but we
have problems when the device writes in the host memory. You can see it as a
simplified DMA operation, where only one 32 bit word is written at a particular
physical address. I checked using a PCIe analyzer that the write operation is
performed (TLP sent). Thus, everything works fine from the device point of view.
But the host does not always 'sees' the write operation. Worst, the write operation
seems buffered somewhere in the path. I can give more details, but what I strongly
suspect is that the host reads a value from the cache (L1 or L2) instead of the DDR.
I read and tried a lot of things (using volatile wherever appropriate, GCC __clear_cache
different flush operation in kernel mode ...), but it does not solve the 'problem'. Could
someone help me?
Thanks for your help,
