I've never been able to get 14.05 or 14.08 working on my AM335X
processor, which is not a big deal as 14.02 has everything I need for
the applications I'm using that processor for. But out of curiosity:
The issue on 14.08 may revolve around memory access bit rights in TLB
table entries. To get 14.08 to initialize the kernel properly the memory
access bits have to be set as Tex = 0, B = 1, and C = 0. These setting
seem correct for a shared Device according to the Arm v7 ref manual.
With those settings in place, the kernel initializes properly and
eventually init runs. During the kernel initialization process Core_pd
is called and translations are created for the program image (which
starts at 0x81000000) and the core-only io memory regions. The
translation table entries for the program image are of section size plus
a small page so two entries are inserted in the translation table. The
access bits and permission bits for the section entry are correct with
the possible exception of the C bit, which in 14.08 appears never to be
set and I wondered why that was, when it is used in 14.02.
Once the init thread runs, any reference to the translation table entry
for the program image, the section entry mentioned above cause a mmu
exception as the following partial debug output shows:
...
start thread 3 'entrypoint' in program 1 'core' on processor 0/1
start thread 4 'signal' in program 1 'core' on processor 0/1
start thread 5 'pager_activation' in program 1 'core' on processor 0/1
int main(): --- start init ---
int main(): transferred 507 MB to init
start thread 6 'init' in program 1 'core' on processor 0/1
thread id is 0x7
start thread 7 'init' in program 2 'init' on processor 0/1
void Kernel::Thread::_mmu_exception(): f_addr 0x81000000 f_writes 0x0
f_pd 0x813ed088 f_signal 0x7f
label init
int main(): --- init created, waiting for exit condition ---
void Kernel::Thread::_mmu_exception(): f_addr 0x81045f60 f_writes 0x1
f_pd 0x813ed088 f_signal 0x7f
label init
void Kernel::Thread::_mmu_exception(): f_addr 0x8102dab8 f_writes 0x0
f_pd 0x813ed088 f_signal 0x7f
label init
...
Setting the C bit as it was set in 14.02 makes no difference, which I
thought it would and it should be affecting caching behavior.
Any thoughts on this behavoir?
Thanks,
Bob