[REGRESSION] Re: [PATCH v11 00/11] Add support for dynamic MMU configuration

[Anshul Dalal]

Hi Francesco,

On Mon Oct 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM IST, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> Hello Anshul,
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 06:45:22PM +0530, Anshul Dalal wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> In U-Boot, TI only provides a single memory map for all k3 platforms, this
>> does not scale for devices where atf and optee lie outside the range 0x80000000
>> - 0x80080000 and 0x9e780000 - 0xa0000000 respectively.
>> 
>> There are also issues for devices with < 2GiB of memory (eg am62SiP with 512MiB
>> of RAM) as the maximum size for the first DRAM bank is hardcoded to 2GiB in the
>> current memory map. Furthermore the second DRAM bank is mapped even for devices
>> that only have a single bank.
>> 
>> Therefore this patch set adds the required functionality to create the MMU table
>> at runtime based on the device-tree.
>> 
>> The patch set has been build tested on all effected platforms but boot-tested
>> only on TI's K3 EVMs, the beagleplay and phytec's phycore-am6* platforms.
>> 
>> The following effected boards have not been boot tested:
>>  - verdin-am62
>
> it seems that this series introduce a regression on verdin-am62, I have
> not done a bi-sect yet, but we run daily build of U-Boot master and the
> regressions seems to have started when this patch series was
> merged.
>
> On verdin-am62 we detect the RAM size at run-time, see
> board/toradex/verdin-am62/verdin-am62.c:dram_init(), and now we always
> get 2GiB even for modules with only 512MB or 1024MB of memory.
>

This patch series modified the behavior of enable_caches to configure the
memory map of the device as per the device-tree instead of using a
static map for all of K3.

The issue with verdin-am62 seems to be that while you do properly
configure gd->ram_size in your dram_init, the '/memory' node of the
device-tree remains unchanged with the outdated 2GiB size.

You could try updating the fdt's memory size to the correct value in
dram_init and see if that fixes the problem.

Regards,
Anshul