Please help with the OMAP static mapping mess

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 22:09:47 EDT 2011


On 10/04/2011 04:21 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 04 October 2011 04:08 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>> * Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> [111003 14:36]:
>>>> On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Having the SRAM base address move around with different sizes also
>>>>> requires the SoC detection.. Otherwise we can end up mapping wrong
>>>>> size and end up trying to access secure SRAM that will hang the system.
>>>>>
>>>>> The way to fix it is to move SRAM init happen much later so we don't
>>>>> have to map it early. I guess now we could use ioremap for SRAM,
>>>>> although we may not want device attributes for the executable code?
>>>>> Got any suggestions here on how we should map SRAM later on?
>>>>
>>>> You can use a variant of ioremap() such as __arm_ioremap() which let you 
>>>> specify the memory attribute.
>>>
>>> OK, I'll take a look at that.
>>>
>> I have tried __arm_ioremap_pfn() for some DDR mapping and it didn't
>> work as expected. The mapping was not getting created.
> 
> Did you investigate why it wasn't created?  Must have been a trivial 
> issue surely?  But you have to wait until memory management is fully 
> initialized to call the real ioremap() though, which happens later 
> during the boot.
> 

Isn't ioremap prevented from using main memory now?

Rob



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