With write-allocate cache we get into the following scenario:
1. data has been updated in the memory by the USB HC, but
2. D-cache holds an un-flushed value of it
3. when affected cache line is being replaced, the old (un-flushed) value is
flushed and overwrites the newly arrived
This is possible due to how write-allocate works with virtual caches (ARM for
example).
In case of USB transfers it leads to fatal tags discrepancies in umass(4)
operation, which look like the following:
umass0: Invalid CSW: tag 1 should be 2
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Request completed with CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command
umass0: Invalid CSW: tag 1 should be 3
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Request completed with CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command
umass0: Invalid CSW: tag 1 should be 4
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Request completed with CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command
umass0: Invalid CSW: tag 1 should be 5
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Request completed with CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command
umass0: Invalid CSW: tag 1 should be 6
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Request completed with CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): error 5
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retries Exausted
To eliminate this, a BUS_DMASYNC_PREREAD sync operation is required in
usbd_start_transfer().
Credits for nailing this down go to Grzegorz Bernacki gjb AT semihalf DOT com.
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
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