Problem with sram size on OMAP1611 (OSK)

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Dec 6 19:18:31 EST 2010


Hi,

* Tim Bird <tim.bird at am.sony.com> [101119 18:48]:
> Santosh,
> 
> I just tried the latest kernel (well, v2.6.36), and found a problem
> that bisected to the following commit:
> 
> commit e546f21b4b7af012d9f18edad6237339adfeb681
> Author: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
> Date:   Fri Sep 24 07:19:49 2010 +0100
> 
>     ARM: 6408/1: omap: Map only available sram memory
> 
> I am testing Linux on an OSK board (with an OMAP1611),
> and the above commmit causes the machine to hang.
> I isolated the problem to the sram length.  The commit
> above changes it to a value detected in omap_detect_sram(),
> but when this value is used, my OSK hangs on boot.
> 
> Below is the hack I used to work around this.  I'm not sure
> what the problem is, but I'd be happy to provide more information
> or try other things, to fix support for omap1611 in mainline.
> I tried putting the 1024 * 1024 value into omap_detect_sram(),
> with no luck.  There's some additional processing there which
> might alter the value.  Or perhaps the current value there
> for omap_sram_size on a 1611 is just wrong.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-omap/sram.c b/arch/arm/plat-omap/sram.c
> index 10b3b4c..d4ba4fa 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/plat-omap/sram.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-omap/sram.c
> @@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ void __init omap_map_sram(void)
>         base = ROUND_DOWN(base, PAGE_SIZE);
>         omap_sram_io_desc[0].pfn = __phys_to_pfn(base);
>         omap_sram_io_desc[0].length = ROUND_DOWN(omap_sram_size, PAGE_SIZE);
> +       if (cpu_is_omap1611())
> +               omap_sram_io_desc[0].length = 1024 * 1024;
>         iotable_init(omap_sram_io_desc, ARRAY_SIZE(omap_sram_io_desc));
> 
>         printk(KERN_INFO "SRAM: Mapped pa 0x%08lx to va 0x%08lx size: 0x%lx\n",

I'm not seeing this on my OSK, can you please check if this still
happening with v2.6.37-rc4?

Regards,

Tony



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