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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: steve@scheftech.com
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid SDRAM access crash
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 09:36:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120703073605.GT2698@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1341249753-5480-1-git-send-email-steve@scheftech.com>

Hi Steve,

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 01:22:33PM -0400, steve@scheftech.com wrote:
> From: Steve Schefter <steve@scheftech.com>
> 
> When remapping the SDRAM with the MMU enabled, we need to ensure
> that the translation tables are not still in cache before
> invalidating the TLB.  Failure to do so will result in the following
> crash approximately 50% of the time:
> 
> booting kernel from /dev/nand0.kernel.bb
>    Image Name:   Linux-3.3.0PD12.0.0
>    OS:           Linux
>    Architecture: ARM
>    Type:         Kernel Image
>    Compression:  uncompressed
>    Data Size:    3384824 Bytes =  3.2 MB
>    Load Address: 80008000
>    Entry Point:  80008000
> unable to handle paging request at address 0x80028000
> pc : [<8f01f280>]    lr : [<8f005330>]
> sp : 8cfff9b0  ip : 0000003f  fp : 00000000
> r10: 00001000  r9 : 00000000  r8 : 8d2a8f70
> r7 : 8f043818  r6 : 0033a5f8  r5 : 8f04381c  r4 : 00001000
> r3 : 80028000  r2 : 00000fff  r1 : 8d2a8f71  r0 : 80028000
> Flags: nzCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32
> [<8f01f280>] (memcpy+0x18/0x20) from [<8f005330>] (uimage_sdram_flush+0x90/0xb8)
> [<8f005330>] (uimage_sdram_flush+0x90/0xb8) from [<8f0053a4>] (uncompress_copy+0x4c/0x74)

I wonder why this has never hit me. On what hardware did you see this?

Does the following patch solve your problem aswell?

8<----------------------------------------------------

ARM mmu: flush page tables in arm_mmu_remap_sdram()

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm/cpu/mmu.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu.c b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu.c
index 55b07a4..607f357 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static int arm_mmu_remap_sdram(struct memory_bank *bank)
 	if ((phys & (SZ_1M - 1)) || (bank->size & (SZ_1M - 1)))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	ptes = memalign(0x400, num_ptes * sizeof(u32));
+	ptes = memalign(PAGE_SIZE, num_ptes * sizeof(u32));
 
 	debug("ptes: 0x%p ttb_start: 0x%08lx ttb_end: 0x%08lx\n",
 			ptes, ttb_start, ttb_end);
@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ static int arm_mmu_remap_sdram(struct memory_bank *bank)
 		pte += 256;
 	}
 
+	dma_flush_range((unsigned long)ttb, (unsigned long)ttb + 0x4000);
+	dma_flush_range((unsigned long)ptes, num_ptes * sizeof(u32));
+
 	tlb_invalidate();
 
 	return 0;
-- 
1.7.10


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-02 17:22 steve
2012-07-03  7:36 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2012-07-03 11:22   ` Steve Schefter
2012-07-04  6:51     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-07-04 11:18       ` Steve Schefter

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