[U-Boot] [PATCH 6/8] arm: Turn of d-cache before i-cache

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Aug 23 23:24:23 CEST 2015


Hi Sjoerd,

On 16 August 2015 at 06:01, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Booting the kernel fails on RK3288 (and probably other rockchip SoCs)
> when the i-cache is disabled/flushed before d-cache.
>
> I have not investigated whether this is due to u-boot hanging or whether

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> it's very early in the linux boot, but following the approach of the
> varoius rockchip u-boot forks (first disable d-cache then i-cache) makes

various

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> things work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons at collabora.co.uk>
> ---
>
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cpu.c | 15 +++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

It would be good to get other reviews (e.g. Albert and Tom) to look at this one.

>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cpu.c b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cpu.c
> index 0b0e500..6eac5ef 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cpu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/cpu.c
> @@ -36,12 +36,6 @@ int cleanup_before_linux_select(int flags)
>         disable_interrupts();
>  #endif
>
> -       /*
> -        * Turn off I-cache and invalidate it
> -        */
> -       icache_disable();
> -       invalidate_icache_all();
> -
>         if (flags & CBL_DISABLE_CACHES) {
>                 /*
>                 * turn off D-cache
> @@ -61,7 +55,16 @@ int cleanup_before_linux_select(int flags)
>                 * to avoid coherency problems for kernel
>                 */
>                 invalidate_dcache_all();
> +
> +               icache_disable();
> +               invalidate_icache_all();
>         } else {
> +               /*
> +                * Turn off I-cache and invalidate it
> +                */
> +               icache_disable();
> +               invalidate_icache_all();
> +
>                 flush_dcache_all();
>                 invalidate_icache_all();
>                 icache_enable();
> --
> 2.5.0
>

Regards,
Simon


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