[PATCH] ARM: imx: Do L2 errata only if the L2 cache isn't enabled

Shawn Guo shawnguo at kernel.org
Sun Feb 14 00:18:57 PST 2016


On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 04:51:00PM +0100, Dirk Behme wrote:
> On 12.02.2016 15:16, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 08:11:33AM +0100, Dirk Behme wrote:
> >>All the generic L2 cache handling code is encapsulated by a
> >>check if the L2 cache is enabled. If it's enabled already, the code
> >>is skipped.
> >>
> >>For the i.MX6 specific L2 cache handling we missed this check.
> >>Add it.
> >
> >What's the reasoning behind this?  The prefetch register is writable
> >while the L2 cache is enabled, unlike the auxiliary control register.
> 
> From an internal log I have the following info:
> 
> The write to the L2-Cache controller from non-secure world causes an
> imprecise
> external abort. If Linux runs from normal world the cache controller
> is already
> enabled and thus no configuration is needed by Linux.

Dirk,

Do you have a real use case of this, i.e. running Linux on i.MX6 in
non-secure world?

Shawn



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