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author | Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com> | 2015-08-28 09:58:54 +0800 |
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committer | Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com> | 2015-09-01 12:44:00 +0800 |
commit | e44e3482bdb4d0ebde2d8b41830ac2cdb07948fb (patch) | |
tree | 66b09f592c55df2878107a468a91d21506104d3f /qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.arm-caches | |
parent | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (diff) |
Add qemu 2.4.0
Change-Id: Ic99cbad4b61f8b127b7dc74d04576c0bcbaaf4f5
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>
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diff --git a/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.arm-caches b/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.arm-caches new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f6a52e3e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.arm-caches @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Disabling I-cache: +- Set CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF + +Disabling D-cache: +- Set CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF + +Enabling I-cache: +- Make sure CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF is not set and call icache_enable(). + +Enabling D-cache: +- Make sure CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF is not set and call dcache_enable(). + +Enabling Caches at System Startup: +- Implement enable_caches() for your platform and enable the I-cache and + D-cache from this function. This function is called immediately + after relocation. + +Guidelines for Working with D-cache: + +Memory to Peripheral DMA: +- Flush the buffer after the MPU writes the data and before the DMA is + initiated. + +Peripheral to Memory DMA: +- Invalidate the buffer before starting the DMA. In case there are any dirty + lines from the DMA buffer in the cache, subsequent cache-line replacements + may corrupt the buffer in memory while the DMA is still going on. Cache-line + replacement can happen if the CPU tries to bring some other memory locations + into the cache while the DMA is going on. +- Invalidate the buffer after the DMA is complete and before the MPU reads + it. This may be needed in addition to the invalidation before the DMA + mentioned above, because in some processors memory contents can spontaneously + come to the cache due to speculative memory access by the CPU. If this + happens with the DMA buffer while DMA is going on we have a coherency problem. + +Buffer Requirements: +- Any buffer that is invalidated(that is, typically the peripheral to + memory DMA buffer) should be aligned to cache-line boundary both at + at the beginning and at the end of the buffer. +- If the buffer is not cache-line aligned invalidation will be restricted + to the aligned part. That is, one cache-line at the respective boundary + may be left out while doing invalidation. +- A suitable buffer can be alloced on the stack using the + ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER macro. + +Cleanup Before Linux: +- cleanup_before_linux() should flush the D-cache, invalidate I-cache, and + disable MMU and caches. +- The following sequence is advisable while disabling d-cache: + 1. disable_dcache() - flushes and disables d-cache + 2. invalidate_dcache_all() - invalid any entry that came to the cache + in the short period after the cache was flushed but before the + cache got disabled. |