From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net>
To: Tirumala Reddy Marri <tmarri@amcc•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Disabling L1 D-cache and side effects
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:04:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080929180455.GA19014@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AC5E1C3367E37D44970B81A6ADD1DA2C060530C1@SDCEXCHANGE01.ad.amcc.com>
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:05:41AM -0700, Tirumala Reddy Marri wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I had to bring up a PPC based SOC with L1 dcache disabled. I did that
> and tried to boot Linux using RAMDISK/NFS mount. In RAMDISK I see the
> file system errors. In case of NFS mount I see error saying failed to
> load ld.so library.
>
> Could you guys please share thoughts what are the different side
> effects might be causing this.
There are a number of things you have to be careful about when you
disable caches. Depending on your implementation, you likely can't use
lwarx/stwcx, cache ops will not work, etc. Also, are you 100% sure that
this is caused only by disabling L1D, and not by any other problems with
your silicon?
If you're doing early bringup of you'll have a whole lot of debug work
in front of you, and this mailing list is probably not the best place
to bring your homework.
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-29 18:00 UTC|newest]
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2008-09-29 17:05 ` Disabling L1 D-cache and side effects Tirumala Reddy Marri
2008-09-29 18:04 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2008-09-29 21:00 ` Tirumala Reddy Marri
2008-09-29 21:14 ` Olof Johansson
2008-09-29 21:38 ` Tirumala Reddy Marri
2008-09-30 7:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-30 16:57 ` Tirumala Reddy Marri
2008-09-30 21:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-30 22:26 ` Tirumala Reddy Marri
2008-09-30 22:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-01 18:07 ` Tirumala Reddy Marri
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