[PATCH] arm: mach-socfpga: detect workaround for dram controller erratum

Sascha Hauer sha at pengutronix.de
Fri Dec 15 03:07:48 PST 2023


On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 05:10:31PM +0100, Stefan Kerkmann wrote:
> To work around an erratum, the previous booting stage may have increased the
> amount of rows to fake having 4G of RAM. In that case, we assume the previous
> booting stage will have fixed up a proper memory size into the device tree and
> don't use the calculated dram size. The erratum itself appears to be
> undocumented by Altera/Intel and the workaround was introduced in the Alteras
> fork of U-Boot back in 2014 and ported to mainline later, the linked FogBugz
> issue is unfortunately not accessible.
> 
> [1] github.com/altera-opensource/u-boot-socfpga/commit/93815696dce132ff8abc4ab2f4c195339ff821a0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Kerkmann <s.kerkmann at pengutronix.de>

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> ---
> To work around an erratum in the Altera DRAM controller, the previous
> booting stage may have increased the amount of rows to fake having 4G of
> RAM. In that case, we assume the previous booting stage will have fixed
> up a proper memory size into the device tree and don't use the
> calculated dram size. The erratum itself appears to be undocumented by
> Altera/Intel and the workaround was introduced in the Alteras fork of
> U-Boot back in 2014 and ported to mainline later, the linked FogBugz
> issue is unfortunately not accessible.
> 
> [1] github.com/altera-opensource/u-boot-socfpga/commit/93815696dce132ff8abc4ab2f4c195339ff821a0
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-socfpga/cyclone5-generic.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/cyclone5-generic.c b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/cyclone5-generic.c
> index ae8142b31c..0cb46b51e9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/cyclone5-generic.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-socfpga/cyclone5-generic.c
> @@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ void socfpga_cyclone5_timer_init(void)
>  static int socfpga_detect_sdram(void)
>  {
>  	void __iomem *base = (void *)CYCLONE5_SDR_ADDRESS;
> -	uint32_t dramaddrw, ctrlwidth, memsize;
> +	uint32_t dramaddrw, ctrlwidth;
> +	uint64_t memsize;
>  	int colbits, rowbits, bankbits;
>  	int width_bytes;
>  
> @@ -153,12 +154,20 @@ static int socfpga_detect_sdram(void)
>  		break;
>  	}
>  
> -	memsize = (1 << colbits) * (1 << rowbits) * (1 << bankbits) * width_bytes;
> +	memsize = (1ULL << colbits) * (1ULL << rowbits) * (1ULL << bankbits) *
> +		  width_bytes;
>  
> -	pr_debug("%s: colbits: %d rowbits: %d bankbits: %d width: %d => memsize: 0x%08x\n",
> +	pr_debug(
> +		"%s: colbits: %d rowbits: %d bankbits: %d width: %d => memsize: 0x%08llx\n",
>  			__func__, colbits, rowbits, bankbits, width_bytes, memsize);
>  
> -	arm_add_mem_device("ram0", 0x0, memsize);
> +	/* To work around an erratum in the dram controller, the previous booting
> +	 * stage may have increased the amount of rows to fake having 4G of RAM. In
> +	 * that case, we assume the previous booting stage will have fixed up a
> +	 * proper memory size into the device tree and don't add a bank here */
> +	if (memsize < SZ_4G) {
> +		arm_add_mem_device("ram0", 0x0, memsize);
> +	}
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 975acf1bafba2366eb40c5e8d8cb732b53f27aa1
> change-id: 20231214-fix-socfpga-dram-errata-workaround-66cae33d7eed
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Stefan Kerkmann <s.kerkmann at pengutronix.de>
> 
> 
> 

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