NOR memory driver fail with MMU enabled

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 01:26:05PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> > > I have a problem with NOR flash when enabling MMU.
> > > Probably this happen due NOR start address is 0x0.
> > > Should we a remap memory addresses same as we do it for kernel? 
> > > Or can someone tell what could be the problem?
> > 
> > This is because the zero page is set to faulting so that you can
> > catch NULL pointer exceptions. You could disable this (see
> > vectors_init), but then you can't catch NULL pointer exceptions
> > anymore. So the best you can do is use map_io_sections and map
> > your flash to some free region, maybe like this:
> > 
> > map_io_sections(0x0, (void *)SZ_1M, SZ_32M);
> > 
> > Then register your flash flash with address 1M instead of 0x0.
> 
> So, this problem is gone. I found a next one MMU-related problem.
> When I turn on option MMU_EARLY, barebox is entered to an endless
> loop or die, I am not sure. Probably problem is in "create_sections"
> procedure from mmu.c, since I tried to add some debug before this
> procedure and we reach this mark, after this procedure we dead.
> Can you get me a point for find a solution?
> Below is a debug output with CONFIG_MMU_EARLY turned on.
> 
> barebox 2013.02.0-00235-g2de8827-dirty #25 Thu Feb 7 12:54:06 MSK 2013
> 
> 
> Board: Cirrus Logic CLEP7212
> initcall-> 0xc0788518
> register_device: platform
> initcall-> 0xc079c988
> register_device: fs
> initcall-> 0xc079e04c
> initcall-> 0xc0794264
> initcall-> 0xc079c958
> xmalloc c0380008 (size 1024)
> initcall-> 0xc079e170
> initcall-> 0xc07886fc
> register_driver: clps711x_serial
> initcall-> 0xc079e004
> xmalloc c0380410 (size 136)
> register_device: clps711x_serial0
> xmalloc c03804a0 (size 192)
> register_device: cs0
> xmalloc c0380568 (size 28)
> xmalloc c03805a8 (size 28)
> initcall-> 0xc078709c
> register_device: global
> initcall-> 0xc079dec4
> xmalloc c03805e8 (size 24)
> request_region ok: 0xc0000000:0xc1ffffff
> xmalloc c0380608 (size 36)
> xmalloc c0380640 (size 36)
> xmalloc c0380678 (size 136)
> register_device: mem0
> initcall-> 0xc079fd24
> request_region ok: 0xc07f4003:0xc07f8002
> xmalloc c0380708 (size 36)
> mmu: ttb: 0xc07f4003

ttb shouldn't be unaligned. Whatever the reason for that is it won't
work. The ARM-ARM has this:

> Reading from CP15 register 2 returns the physical address of the
> currently active first-level translation table in bits[31:14] and an
> UNPREDICTABLE value in bits[13:0]. The CRm and opcode2 fields are
> ignored when reading CP15 register 2 and should be zero.  Writing to
> CP15 register 2 updates the physical address of the currently active
> first-level translation table from the value in bits[31:14] of the
> written value. Bits[13:0] must be written as zero or as a value
> previously read from bits[13:0] of this register. The CRm and opcode2
> fields are ignored when writing CP15 register 2 and should be zero.

It seems we have to mask out bits[13:0] from the ttb. Appearantly these
were zero on the boards I tested this.

Sascha


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