[U-Boot] v7_outer_cache_inval_range error on iMX6Q

Neil Armstrong narmstrong at baylibre.com
Fri Nov 24 08:45:27 UTC 2017


Hi Łukasz,

On 23/11/2017 20:55, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having a strange issue while porting the DART-MX6 and it's
>> carrier board to mainline U-Boot.
>>
>> Everything works as expected except "fatls" where I get the following
>> output :
> 
> Please look into:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/831183/
> 
> IN short:
> 
> You may need to fix the code by using cache aware allocation
> functions instead of calloc(), malloc().

I found it in fat.c, thanks.

Neil

> 
> 
> BR,
> Łukasz
>>
>> => fatls mmc 0:1  
>> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4f59dfc8, 4f59e7c8]
>> CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4f59dfc8, 4f59e7c8]
>> ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - start address is not aligned -
>> 0x4f59dfc8 ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - stop address is not
>> aligned - 0x4f59e7c8 CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4f59dfc8,
>> 4f59e7c8] CACHE: Misaligned operation at range [4f59dfc8, 4f59e7c8]
>> ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - start address is not aligned -
>> 0x4f59dfc8 ERROR: v7_outer_cache_inval_range - stop address is not
>> aligned - 0x4f59e7c8
>>
>> 0 file(s), 0 dir(s)
>>
>> But :
>> => fatinfo mmc 0:1  
>> Interface:  MMC
>>   Device 0: Vendor: Man 000074 Snr 62aee901 Rev: 4.2 Prod: USD  
>>             Type: Removable Hard Disk
>>             Capacity: 7695.0 MB = 7.5 GB (15759360 x 512)
>> Filesystem: FAT16 "boot       "
>>
>> And it contains :
>>     41541   imx6q-var-dt6customboard.dtb
>>   6535440   uImage
>>
>> And even fatload works :
>> => fatload mmc 0:1 $loadaddr uIMage  
>> reading uIMage
>> 6535440 bytes read in 322 ms (19.4 MiB/s)
>>
>> Same for mmc0 (SDCard) and mmc1 (eMMC).
>>
>> I tested against v2017.11 and master
>> (16fa2eb95172e63820ee5f3d4052f3362a6de84e) with :
>> gcc-linaro-4.9.4-2017.01-x86_64_arm-eabi
>> gcc-linaro-7.1.1-2017.08-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf
>>
>> same behaviour.
>>
>> And same behaviour when reverting the following :
>> af609e3 fs/fat: Check malloc return values and fix memory leaks
>> 09fa964 fs/fat: Fix 'CACHE: Misaligned operation at range' warnings
>> 8df8731 fs/fat: Fix pathnames using '..' that lead to the root
>> directory 2460098 fs/fat: Reduce stack usage
>>
>> Do someone have an idea except disabling data cache ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neil
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lukasz Majewski
> 
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