I am looking for some debug help on an iMX6SL. I have configured cache memory access for instruction and data based on the SDK and some feedback from this forum. However, after enabling cache I SOMETIMES get a data abort with a misaligned access:
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Oops, data abort occurred!
Registers at point of exception:
cpsr = nZCvqeAIFt Supervisor (0x600001d3)
r0 = 0x00000001 r8 = 0x00000000
r1 = 0x80000000 r9 = 0x00000001
r2 = 0x00080000 r10 = 0x00000000
r3 = 0x020e0001 r11 = 0x8226a0f4
r4 = 0xdeadfeed r12 = 0x8226a0f8
r5 = 0x80083344 sp = 0x8226a0e8
r6 = 0x00000000 lr = 0x80083b58
r7 = 0x00000094 pc = 0x80086b40
dfsr = 0x00000801
dfar = 0x020e0001
Access type: write
Fault status: 0x1
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Oops, data abort occurred!
Registers at point of exception:
cpsr = nZCvqeAIFt Supervisor (0x600001d3)
r0 = 0x00000001 r8 = 0x00000000
r1 = 0x80000000 r9 = 0x00000001
r2 = 0x00080000 r10 = 0x00000000
r3 = 0x020eff1f r11 = 0x8226a0f4
r4 = 0xdeadfeed r12 = 0x8226a0f8
r5 = 0x80083344 sp = 0x8226a0e8
r6 = 0x00000000 lr = 0x80083b58
r7 = 0x00000094 pc = 0x80086b40
dfsr = 0x00000801
dfar = 0x020eff1f
Access type: write
Fault status: 0x1
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These are two runs of the same executable. However, note that the memory address of the violation (0x020eff1f and 0x020e0001) is different even though the PC is the same location. This is very surprising that the same code would fault at the same line of code in different ways. The code that is causing the fault SEEMs to be in the iomux_config() code that is just a string of writes to set IO PAD settings. It is the code from the Freescale SDK for the MCIMX6SLEVK and I think it is OK
I would like some help with debug procedure. What could cause this error? I think the MMU is configured OK and the Cache seems OK. Could it be related to the debugger or clock settings?
Here is a snippet of my init code:
mmu_init();
arm_branch_prediction_disable();
arm_icache_disable();
arm_dcache_disable();
arm_icache_invalidate();
arm_dcache_invalidate();
arm_icache_enable();
mmu_enable();
arm_dcache_invalidate();
arm_dcache_enable();
iomux_config(); /////////// Seems to fail somewhere in here....
