Possible mistake in defining TTBR cache-able attributes for v7-2 level ?

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Mar 14 11:53:59 EDT 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 01:46:27PM +0000, Shiraz Hashim wrote:
> TTB_IRGN_WBWA macro defined in arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S, seems incorrect
> 
> #define TTB_IRGN_WBWA   ((0 << 0) | (1 << 6))
> 
> Its intention seems to program as write back and write allocate whereas it
> actually
> programs it  write-through,
> 
> From ARM TRM
> 
> The possible values of IRGN[1:0] are:
>   0b00 Normal memory, Inner Non-cacheable.
>   0b01 Normal memory, Inner Write-Back Write-Allocate Cacheable.
>   0b10 Normal memory, Inner Write-Through Cacheable.
>   0b11 Normal memory, Inner Write-Back no Write-Allocate Cacheable.
> 
> --IRGN[0] is b'0 and IRGN[1] is b'6

In the ARMv7 ARM, IRGN[0] is bit 6 and IRGN[1] is bit 0. Which TRM is
this?

-- 
Catalin



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