Hello Genodians
While implementing our driver for the i.MX8 CAAM device, I experience some problems with DMA using the following steps:
a) Allocate DMA memory using alloc_dma_buffer from the platform session. b) Fill the DMA memory with some data. c) Tell the hardware to work with the data by register write. d) Look at the result code provided by the hardware.
I observe an error result code from the hardware indicating the DMA read failed or returned the wrong data, unless I insert some time-consuming code (like a call to Genode::log or just a burning cycles) between b) and c).
I think the problem could be a data race between the CPU filling the RAM and the device reading it by DMA. On the other hand, I provide the UNCACHED argument to alloc_dma_buffer which should, if my understanding is correct, be reflected in the page table disabling the cache thus avoiding this problem.
What am I missing?
Kind regards Stefan