[PATCH 03/33] Revert "arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721e-sk: Fix reversed C6x carveout locations"

Kumar, Udit u-kumar1 at ti.com
Thu Aug 14 19:35:20 PDT 2025


On 8/15/2025 4:08 AM, Beleswar Padhi wrote:
> This reverts commit 9f3814a7c06b7c7296cf8c1622078ad71820454b.
>
> The C6x carveouts are reversed intentionally. This is due to the
> requirement to keep the DMA memory region as non-cached, however the
> minimum granular cache region for C6x is 16MB. So, C66x_0 marks the
> entire C66x_1 16MB memory carveouts as non-cached, and uses the DMA
> memory region of C66x_1 as its own, and vice-versa.

Sorry , but i failed to understand how this swap helps in making region 
non-cached.

16MB logic is understood.

>
> This was also called out in the original commit which introduced these
> reversed carveouts:
> 	"The minimum granularity on the Cache settings on C66x DSP cores
> 	is 16MB, so the DMA memory regions are chosen such that they are
> 	in separate 16MB regions for each DSP, while reserving a total
> 	of 16 MB for each DSP and not changing the overall DSP
> 	remoteproc carveouts."
>
> Fixes: 9f3814a7c06b ("arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721e-sk: Fix reversed C6x carveout locations")
> Signed-off-by: Beleswar Padhi <b-padhi at ti.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721e-sk.dts | 6 ++++--
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721e-sk.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721e-sk.dts
> index ffef3d1cfd55..9882bb1e8097 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721e-sk.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721e-sk.dts
> @@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ main_r5fss1_core1_memory_region: r5f-memory at a5100000 {
>   			no-map;
>   		};
>   
> -		c66_0_dma_memory_region: c66-dma-memory at a6000000 {
> +		/* Carveout locations are flipped due to caching */
> +		c66_1_dma_memory_region: c66-dma-memory at a6000000 {
>   			compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
>   			reg = <0x00 0xa6000000 0x00 0x100000>;
>   			no-map;
> @@ -132,7 +133,8 @@ c66_0_memory_region: c66-memory at a6100000 {
>   			no-map;
>   		};
>   
> -		c66_1_dma_memory_region: c66-dma-memory at a7000000 {
> +		/* Carveout locations are flipped due to caching */
> +		c66_0_dma_memory_region: c66-dma-memory at a7000000 {
>   			compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
>   			reg = <0x00 0xa7000000 0x00 0x100000>;
>   			no-map;



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