Re: [PATCH] ARM: at91: Fix: Change internal SRAM memory type to"MT_MEMORY_SO"

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 12:20 Fri 24 May     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:11:04AM +0000, Yang, Wenyou wrote:
> > The story is: for sama5d3x with Cortex-A5 core, if not so, when copying
> > code snippet to the internal SRAM, then jump to run this code, but fail
> > to run.
> 
> And that is where your mistake is - you forgot that you're working with
> a CPU with harvard caches which will require some cache maintanence
> between copying the code and executing it.
> 
> You want to look at flush_icache_range() rather than making this memory
> strongly ordered.

I understand your point but today we map a SRAM as MT_DEVICE

I do not think it's the best

Best Regards,
J.
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