Cortex-A9 SCU + ARM_ERRATA_764369

Mason slash.tmp at free.fr
Tue Nov 3 11:52:30 PST 2015


Mark Rutland wrote:

> Mason wrote:
>
>> What is scu_base + 0x30? (SCU diagnostic control register?)
> 
> It's documented (admittedly very sparsely) in the Software
> Developers Errata Notice for Cortex-A9 processors, in the
> section regarding erratum 764369.

A Freescale document mentions:

> Set bit[0] in the undocumented SCU diagnostic control register
> located at offset 0x30 from the PERIPHBASE address. Setting this bit
> disables the "migratory bit" feature. This forces a dirty cache line
> to be evicted to the lower memory subsystem—which is both the point
> of coherency and the point of unification—when it is being read by
> another processor.

Can this register be written to by a non-secure OS?

Regards.




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