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SubjectRe: [PATCH] power: reset: at91-reset: enable I-cache for at91sam9260_reset
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 4:03 PM Alexander Stein
<alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> wrote:
>
> Do you have CONFIG_CPU_ICACHE_DISABLE enabled?
> I wonder why I-cache is disabled. I know about this errata, AT91SAM9G20 is affected as well.
>

Hi Alexander!

I just checked, we do not have CONFIG_CPU_ICACHE_DISABLE enabled.
I wonder as well! If you have any idea I can try them out on my board tomorrow!

The effect of enabling them is real. I have managed over 1000 reboots
with this patch.
And at the most 20 without.

> Best regards,
> Alexander

Jonas

>
> On Sunday, October 7, 2018, 2:57:45 PM CEST Jonas Danielsson wrote:
> > From: Jonas Danielsson <jonas@orbital-systems.com>
> >
> > This fixes a bug where our embedded system (AT91SAM9260 based) would
> > hang at reboot. At the most we managed 16 boot loops without a hang.
> >
> > With this patch applied the problem has not been observed and the board
> > has managed above 250 boot loops.
> >
> > The AT91SAM9260 datasheet tells us that with the instruction cache
> > disabled all instructions are fetched from SDRAM. And we have an errata
> > telling us we must power down the SDRAM before issuing cpu reset.
> >
> > This means we need the instruction cache enabled in at91sam9260_reset()
> > At the moment it is being disabled in cpu_proc_fin() which is called from
> > arch/arm/kernel/reboot.c.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jonas Danielsson <jonas@orbital-systems.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/power/reset/at91-reset.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/power/reset/at91-reset.c b/drivers/power/reset/at91-reset.c
> > index f44a9ffcc2ab..78972bba64df 100644
> > --- a/drivers/power/reset/at91-reset.c
> > +++ b/drivers/power/reset/at91-reset.c
> > @@ -50,14 +50,24 @@ static void __iomem *at91_ramc_base[2], *at91_rstc_base;
> > static struct clk *sclk;
> >
> > /*
> > -* unless the SDRAM is cleanly shutdown before we hit the
> > +* Errata 43.1.7.1 RSTC: Reset during SDRAM Accesses
> > +*
> > +* Unless the SDRAM is cleanly shutdown before we hit the
> > * reset register it can be left driving the data bus and
> > * killing the chance of a subsequent boot from NAND
> > +*
> > +* Since we are disabling SDRAM need to make sure that the
> > +* instruction cache is enabled.
> > */
> > static int at91sam9260_restart(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long mode,
> > void *cmd)
> > {
> > asm volatile(
> > + /* Enable I-cache */
> > + "mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0\n\t"
> > + "orr r0, r0, #4096\n\t" /* CR_I (bit 12) */
> > + "mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0\n\t"
> > +
> > /* Align to cache lines */
> > ".balign 32\n\t"
> >
> >
>
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