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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-03 14:31:24 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-03 14:31:24 -0700 |
commit | be82ae0238b0453afcf4a76f0512b7dde34ba500 (patch) | |
tree | aaa3f5f11fd51fd73365ee1a2164aad9a03de060 /Documentation | |
parent | 4b4fd27c0b5ec638a1f06ced9226fd95229dbbf0 (diff) | |
parent | 7b70c4275f28702b76b273c8534c38f8313812e9 (diff) |
Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (291 commits)
ARM: AMBA: Add pclk support to AMBA bus infrastructure
ARM: 6278/2: fix regression in RealView after the introduction of pclk
ARM: 6277/1: mach-shmobile: Allow users to select HZ, default to 128
ARM: 6276/1: mach-shmobile: remove duplicate NR_IRQS_LEGACY
ARM: 6246/1: mmci: support larger MMCIDATALENGTH register
ARM: 6245/1: mmci: enable hardware flow control on Ux500 variants
ARM: 6244/1: mmci: add variant data and default MCICLOCK support
ARM: 6243/1: mmci: pass power_mode to the translate_vdd callback
ARM: 6274/1: add global control registers definition header file for nuc900
mx2_camera: fix type of dma buffer virtual address pointer
mx2_camera: Add soc_camera support for i.MX25/i.MX27
arm/imx/gpio: add spinlock protection
ARM: Add support for the LPC32XX arch
ARM: LPC32XX: Arch config menu supoport and makefiles
ARM: LPC32XX: Phytec 3250 platform support
ARM: LPC32XX: Misc support functions
ARM: LPC32XX: Serial support code
ARM: LPC32XX: System suspend support
ARM: LPC32XX: GPIO, timer, and IRQ drivers
ARM: LPC32XX: Clock driver
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/memory.txt | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/tcm.txt | 30 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt index eb0fae18ffb..771d48d3b33 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt @@ -33,7 +33,13 @@ ffff0000 ffff0fff CPU vector page. fffe0000 fffeffff XScale cache flush area. This is used in proc-xscale.S to flush the whole data - cache. Free for other usage on non-XScale. + cache. (XScale does not have TCM.) + +fffe8000 fffeffff DTCM mapping area for platforms with + DTCM mounted inside the CPU. + +fffe0000 fffe7fff ITCM mapping area for platforms with + ITCM mounted inside the CPU. fff00000 fffdffff Fixmap mapping region. Addresses provided by fix_to_virt() will be located here. diff --git a/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt b/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt index 77fd9376e6d..7c15871c188 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ defines a CPUID_TCM register that you can read out from the system control coprocessor. Documentation from ARM can be found at http://infocenter.arm.com, search for "TCM Status Register" to see documents for all CPUs. Reading this register you can -determine if ITCM (bit 0) and/or DTCM (bit 16) is present in the -machine. +determine if ITCM (bits 1-0) and/or DTCM (bit 17-16) is present +in the machine. There is further a TCM region register (search for "TCM Region Registers" at the ARM site) that can report and modify the location @@ -35,7 +35,15 @@ The TCM memory can then be remapped to another address again using the MMU, but notice that the TCM if often used in situations where the MMU is turned off. To avoid confusion the current Linux implementation will map the TCM 1 to 1 from physical to virtual -memory in the location specified by the machine. +memory in the location specified by the kernel. Currently Linux +will map ITCM to 0xfffe0000 and on, and DTCM to 0xfffe8000 and +on, supporting a maximum of 32KiB of ITCM and 32KiB of DTCM. + +Newer versions of the region registers also support dividing these +TCMs in two separate banks, so for example an 8KiB ITCM is divided +into two 4KiB banks with its own control registers. The idea is to +be able to lock and hide one of the banks for use by the secure +world (TrustZone). TCM is used for a few things: @@ -65,18 +73,18 @@ in <asm/tcm.h>. Using this interface it is possible to: memory. Such a heap is great for things like saving device state when shutting off device power domains. -A machine that has TCM memory shall select HAVE_TCM in -arch/arm/Kconfig for itself, and then the -rest of the functionality will depend on the physical -location and size of ITCM and DTCM to be defined in -mach/memory.h for the machine. Code that needs to use -TCM shall #include <asm/tcm.h> If the TCM is not located -at the place given in memory.h it will be moved using -the TCM Region registers. +A machine that has TCM memory shall select HAVE_TCM from +arch/arm/Kconfig for itself. Code that needs to use TCM shall +#include <asm/tcm.h> Functions to go into itcm can be tagged like this: int __tcmfunc foo(int bar); +Since these are marked to become long_calls and you may want +to have functions called locally inside the TCM without +wasting space, there is also the __tcmlocalfunc prefix that +will make the call relative. + Variables to go into dtcm can be tagged like this: int __tcmdata foo; |