Highmem issues with MMC filesystem

Hemanth V hemanthv at ti.com
Fri Mar 19 10:28:41 EDT 2010


> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> Furthermore the same highmem issues were reported to occur on an OMAP
> system with the filesystem on a MMC card i.e. different CPU manufacturer
> with a different block device driver.
>
> So the issue really seems to be about ARMv5 (works) vs ARMv6 (doesn't
> work), which makes some sense given the huge difference between both
> cache models.
>

Adding a cache flush before starting MMC DMA solves the problem for me,
so dumping cache contents can give some clues to the problem. Does anyone
have access to a debugger which can dump cache contents.

Thanks
Hemanth




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