[U-Boot] [PATCH] ddr: altera: Add ECC DRAM scrubbing support for Stratix 10

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Jul 24 10:52:39 UTC 2018


On 07/24/2018 10:10 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 11:46 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> On 07/23/2018 10:20 AM, tien.fong.chee at intel.com wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee at intel.com>
>>>
>>> The SDRAM must first be rewritten by zeroes if ECC is used to
>>> initialize
>>> the ECC metadata. Make the CPU overwrite the DRAM with zeroes in
>>> such a
>>> case. This scrubbing implementation turns the caches on
>>> temporarily, then
>>> overwrites the whole RAM with zeroes, flushes the caches and turns
>>> them
>>> off again. This provides satisfactory performance.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/ddr/altera/sdram_s10.c |   44
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/ddr/altera/sdram_s10.c
>>> b/drivers/ddr/altera/sdram_s10.c
>>> index 48f4f47..cce261f 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/ddr/altera/sdram_s10.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/ddr/altera/sdram_s10.c
>>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
>>>  #include <errno.h>
>>>  #include <div64.h>
>>>  #include <asm/io.h>
>>> +#include <linux/sizes.h>
>>>  #include <wait_bit.h>
>>>  #include <asm/arch/firewall_s10.h>
>>>  #include <asm/arch/sdram_s10.h>
>>> @@ -134,6 +135,47 @@ static int poll_hmc_clock_status(void)
>>>  				 SYSMGR_HMC_CLK_STATUS_MSK, true,
>>> 1000, false);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +/* Initialize SDRAM ECC bits to avoid false DBE */
>>> +static void sdram_init_ecc_bits(unsigned long long size)
>>> +{
>>> +	/* 1GB per chunk */
>>> +	unsigned long long size_byte = SZ_1G;
>>> +	unsigned long long remaining_size;
>>> +	unsigned long long dst_addr = 0x8000;
>>> +	unsigned int start = get_timer(0);
>>> +
>>> +	icache_enable();
>>> +
>>> +	memset(0, 0, dst_addr);
>>> +	gd->arch.tlb_addr = 0x4000;
>>> +	gd->arch.tlb_size = PGTABLE_SIZE;
>> Are you sure this is valid on arm64 ? It looks like something copies
>> from arria10.
> The cache on/off is copied from your implementation on Arria 10. Yes, i
> have tested it, it is working on Stratix 10 board.

Right, except S10 is arm64, A10 is arm32, which is why I wonder whether
careless copying is enough.

>>>
>>> +	dcache_enable();
>>> +
>>> +	remaining_size = size - dst_addr;
>>> +	printf("DDRCAL: Scrubbing ECC RAM (%d MiB).\n", (u32)(size
>>>>> 20));
>>> +
>>> +	while (remaining_size) {
>>> +		if (remaining_size <= size_byte) {
>>> +			memset((void *)dst_addr, 0,
>>> remaining_size);
>>> +			break;
>>> +		} else {
>>> +			memset((void *)dst_addr, 0, size_byte);
>>> +			dst_addr += size_byte;
>>> +		}
>>> +
>>> +		WATCHDOG_RESET();
>>> +		remaining_size -= size_byte;
>>> +	}
>> How long does this take ?
> 1359ms for 2GB.

So why do you need this watchdog reset hack ?

> But I have no idea why Arria 10 board can't achieve the
> same result. Could you try again on your Arria 10 ES board?

There's nothing to try, the scrubbing works fine on A10.

>>>
>>> +	flush_dcache_all();
>>> +	printf("DDRCAL: Scrubbing ECC RAM done.\n");
>>> +	dcache_disable();
>>> +
>>> +	printf("SDRAM-ECC: Initialized success with %d ms\n",
>>> +	(unsigned)get_timer(start));
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  /**
>>>   * sdram_mmr_init_full() - Function to initialize SDRAM MMR
>>>   *
>>> @@ -351,6 +393,8 @@ int sdram_mmr_init_full(unsigned int unused)
>>>  		setbits_le32(SOCFPGA_SDR_ADDRESS + ECCCTRL2,
>>>  			     (DDR_HMC_ECCCTL2_RMW_EN_SET_MSK |
>>>  			      DDR_HMC_ECCCTL2_AWB_EN_SET_MSK));
>>> +
>>> +		sdram_init_ecc_bits(gd->ram_size);
>>>  	} else {
>>>  		clrbits_le32(SOCFPGA_SDR_ADDRESS + ECCCTRL1,
>>>  			     (DDR_HMC_ECCCTL_AWB_CNT_RST_SET_MSK |
>>>


-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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