Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: i.MX: external NAND boot: Leave icache disabled

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 07:23:09AM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Am 18.02.20 um 16:37 schrieb Sascha Hauer:
> > It seems running from the NFC SRAM doesn't work with the instruction
> > cache enabled, it leads to corruptions on the i.MX27. We stumbled upon
> > this earlier and the solution at that time was to disable the
> > instruction cache in the NAND boot code. It is, however, more reliable
> > to just not enable the instruction cache in the first place.
> > This is not particularly nice as we have to ifdef this in generic code,
> > duplicate arm_cpu_lowlevel_init(), or call arm_cpu_lowlevel_init() later
> > when we are out of NFC SRAM. From the different bad solutions I chose
> > to ifdef the instruction cache away. It will be enabled later in the
> > common cache functions.
> 
> 
> Hm... is it possible that we have similar speculation issues as on i.MX6UL? The CPU was speculating
> in to IOMEM, caused cache poisoning/corruption and executed corrupted cache.

I don't know how much speculation an ARM9 processor does, but the end
result looks very similar. via JTAG I can see that the memory matches
my disassembly, just the CPU does something completely different.

Sascha

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