[U-Boot] [PATCH] 8313erdb: Set guarded bit on BAT that covers the end of the address space.
Liu Dave-R63238
DaveLiu at freescale.com
Mon Mar 23 10:51:17 CET 2009
> It seems like the root cause of this problem:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/53025/
> match=nasty+gunzip+problem+mpc8313e+rdb
>
> As a MPC8313E(-RDB) user I'm happy no more checkstops will
> occur for some kernels. I'm even more happy I took over the
> BAT settings from MPC8315ERDB.h for our custom MPC8313 board
> (MPC8315ERDB.h doesn't have this problem as far as i can tell)
[snip]
> Scott Wood wrote:
> > This board currently sets DBAT6 to cover all of the final 256MiB of
> > address space; however, not all of this space is covered by
> a device.
> > In particular, flash sits at 0xfe000000-0xfe7fffff, and nothing is
> > mapped at the far end of the address space.
> >
> > In zlib, there is a loop that references p[-1] if p is non-NULL.
> > Under some circumstances, this leads to the CPU
> speculatively loading
> > from
> > 0xfffffff8 if p is NULL. This leads to a machine check.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> > ---
> > Note that there are likely other board with the same issue.
> >
> > include/configs/MPC8313ERDB.h | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/configs/MPC8313ERDB.h
> > b/include/configs/MPC8313ERDB.h index 0ef4eba..21aedee 100644
> > --- a/include/configs/MPC8313ERDB.h
> > +++ b/include/configs/MPC8313ERDB.h
> > @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@
> > #define CONFIG_SYS_IBAT5U (CONFIG_SYS_IMMR | BATU_BL_256M
> | BATU_VS | BATU_VP)
> >
> > /* SDRAM @ 0xF0000000, stack in DCACHE 0xFDF00000 & FLASH
> @ 0xFE000000 */
> > -#define CONFIG_SYS_IBAT6L (0xF0000000 | BATL_PP_10)
> > +#define CONFIG_SYS_IBAT6L (0xF0000000 | BATL_PP_10 |
> BATL_GUARDEDSTORAGE)
> > #define CONFIG_SYS_IBAT6U (0xF0000000 | BATU_BL_256M |
> BATU_VS | BATU_VP)
> >
Scott/Kim,
We still have the same issue on MPC8349EMDS, MPC8349ITX and sbc8349,
But the 8360EMDS, 8315ERDB, 837xEMDS(RDB) have not this issue.
It is strange we leave the Flash as non-guarded attribute at 8349 board
and 8313ERDB,
When did we leave them to non-guarded?
Thanks, Dave
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