But the UART is set on a total different memory space. The SRAM where barebox runs and also given as membase and memsize is in the region of 0xC0_0000_0000 The UART is in the region of 0xD0_0030_7000. According the tarmac log, it looks like access to this location caused the exception: 3505306 ns ES (000000c0000814ac:910003fd) O el3h: mov x29, sp (console_putc) R X29 (AARCH64) 000000c0 00377ac0 3505306 ns ES (000000c0000814b0:f9400460) O el3h: ldr x0, [x3, #8] (console_putc) LD 000000c0000825d0 ........ ........ 000000d0 00307000 S:c0000825d0 R X0 (AARCH64) 000000d0 00307000 3505307 ns ES (000000c0000814b4:d63f0040) O el3h: blr x2 (console_putc) R X30 (AARCH64) 000000c0 000814b8 3505371 ns ES (000000c000000b5c:b9000001) O el3h: str w1, [x0] (spider_serial_putc) EXC [0x200] Synchronous Current EL with SP_ELx R FAR_EL3 (AARCH64) 000000c0 00000b5c R ESR_EL3 (AARCH64) 8600000f R CPSR 200003cd R SPSR_EL3 (AARCH64) 200003cd R ELR_EL3 (AARCH64) 000000c0 00000b5c 3505443 ns ES (000000c004000a00:14000586) O el3h: b c004002018 <exception_entry> (Vectors) EXC [0x200] Synchronous Current EL with SP_ELx R FAR_EL3 (AARCH64) 000000c0 04000a00 R ESR_EL3 (AARCH64) 8600000e R CPSR 200003cd R SPSR_EL3 (AARCH64) 200003cd R ELR_EL3 (AARCH64) 000000c0 04000a00 BTW, In addition to the UART, there seems to be another issue. The Vectors themselves are located in our ROM location which also resides on a different memory area (0xC0_0400_0000 space). Once the UART access caused an exception, the jump to Vectors caused another exception so we are in a loop. Looks like a catch22 to me. On one hand the barebox wanted to start clean and disabled the MMU but on the other hand the mmu_early_enable sets a partial MMU which causes exceptions. What do you think needs to be the best solution here? Cheers, Lior. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2023 10:18 AM > To: Lior Weintraub <liorw@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: ARM: mmu_early_enable > > CAUTION: External Sender > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 06:22:50AM +0000, Lior Weintraub wrote: > > Hi Sascha, > > > > I think I found an issue with the CONFIG_MMU feature. > > When the code under barebox_pbl_start calls mmu_early_enable, the MMU > > is set such that only the given SRAM is defined (membase, memsize). > > But then, if DEBUG_LL is in use and the function pr_debug is called we > > get an exception because the UART address is not included in the MMU. > > That shouldn't happen. See the code in mmu_early_enable(): > > early_remap_range(0, 1UL << (BITS_PER_VA - 1), MAP_UNCACHED); > early_remap_range(membase, memsize - OPTEE_SIZE, MAP_CACHED); > early_remap_range(membase + memsize - OPTEE_SIZE, OPTEE_SIZE, > MAP_FAULT); > > The first line maps the whole address space uncached in a flat 1:1 > mapping. The second and third lines map the SDRAM (SRAM in your case) > cached. > > Your availabe memory is quite small (3MiB) and by skipping the > relocation your SRAM layout is not standard. Could it be that something > overwrites your page tables? > > Sascha > > -- > Pengutronix e.K. | | > Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://secure- > web.cisco.com/1OEKFl2BnNpoLNUlGA--QcqTLOmehOhRYUZN- > THBCB91kVNePMy2om4tD5Nv- > _isTZzlwD1lXGQLUMWmqHlBH9dEe0vcctRC7gn_a6v7IxQu5RV7VCRo5Rl7Tylx > vh1hfoYe3c1lCTbGAEE5kXKVZLdKBs7oNP9Xn4ml3gy7I78- > c_QsTMlZ4xNZj06ORqpIvkGFgk72fNMsGjjLXZP6zTk2yEI2gjapDB8ClJ0mVtAl > oiP9YHbgjuY0qbUbZfQq-UuasUtCi2rRo0Pu2jKm7sqnlCFb16xbdfl- > JN9oqUXAy8l3lHq0yGyfhYZnzWTxH/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pengutronix.de% > 2F | > 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | > Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |