I encountered some issues writing to a memory that we allocated to be shared both the A5 and M4.
When I write to the shared memory in A5, not all data is being reflected immediately. It will only reflect when we tried to rewrite the data again.
Here is a scenario of what i am doing.
1. mmap the /dev/mem
2. update data in the shared memory
3. read in the M4.
Result: not all are reflected.
4. rewrite again in A5.
5. read in the M4.
Result: all are reflected.
We have similar experience in M4 and we solve it by calling _DCACHE_FLUSH_MLINES(). to flush the data after writing.
Does anybody know what would be the equivalent for flushing DCACHE in A5?
Thanks
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Hello Carlo,
As suggested in the ticket you have open with our Support Engineers, MCC_DECACHE_INVALIDATE_MLINES may be what you are looking for, you can refer to https://linuxlink.timesys.com/system/files/Vybrid_mcc_design.pdf for further insight/examples.
Alternatively, reviewing arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c, you will see the 'l2x0_flush_all()' function, which will flush the entire L2 cache.
Regards,
Timesys Support
Hello timesyssupport,
Currently I am not using the MCC and the A5 application is a userspace not in the kernel.
I used mmap to map the memory.
I found a site that calls a clear cache. __clear_cache() to flush and invalidate the cache but still not working or I missed some prerequisite.
https://minghuasweblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/arm-cache-flush-on-mmapd-buffers-with-clear-cache/
Hello Carlo,
Does this function not satisfy your needs:
arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c, 'l2x0_flush_all()' function
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c?v=3.13#L149
Regards,
Timesys Support
Hello Timesys,
I am looking for a userspace function to flush all cache.
Hello Carlo,
I don't believe this is possible from userspace; most discussion I can find along these lines suggest a kernel driver to flush cache, as userspace would not have permission to modify memory.
Regards,
Timesys Support
timesyssupport please continue with the follow up.
timesyssupport can you help here?