[U-Boot] [PATCH] am33xx: Enable D-CACHE on !CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Fri Aug 30 23:13:58 CEST 2013


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 05:07:17PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:

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> On 08/30/2013 12:50 AM, Sricharan R wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> > 
> > On Friday 23 August 2013 09:56 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >> Test on Beaglebone white over cpsw, usb ether and SD card (read and
> >> write), performance increased, crc32 of data matches.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/am33xx/board.c |    8 ++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/am33xx/board.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/am33xx/board.c
> >> index 2ea3d69..c261af5 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/am33xx/board.c
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/am33xx/board.c
> >> @@ -225,3 +225,11 @@ void s_init(void)
> >>  	sdram_init();
> >>  #endif
> >>  }
> >> +
> >> +#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF
> >> +void enable_caches(void)
> >> +{
> >> +	/* Enable D-cache. I-cache is already enabled in start.S */
> >> +	dcache_enable();
> >> +}
> >> +#endif /* !CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF */
> >  This is fine. Do we have secure devices here ?
> > 
> >  If so, we should take care of setting the domains permissions for
> >  avoiding prefetch aborts. As it was done for OMAP using
> >  arm_init_domains. So that function and the above should be executed on
> >  am33xx as well.
> > 
> >  Thanks to Lokesh for reminding this.
> 
> Yes, but I can't easily test them.  I'll see if arm_init_domains just
> works on non-HS devices (I know I had a failure pulling all the OMAP4
> code over, but didn't try hard, just looked again at the "easy" path).

Yeah, that code as-is hangs the boards.  So if the HS devices need
something, it'll go with the rest of their patches until we're moving it
upstream.  But good to note a potential problem area!

-- 
Tom
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