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diff --git a/Documentation/arm/tcm.rst b/Documentation/arm/tcm.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1dc6c3922 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm/tcm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +================================================== +ARM TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) handling in Linux +================================================== + +Written by Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> + +Some ARM SoCs have a so-called TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory). +This is usually just a few (4-64) KiB of RAM inside the ARM +processor. + +Due to being embedded inside the CPU, the TCM has a +Harvard-architecture, so there is an ITCM (instruction TCM) +and a DTCM (data TCM). The DTCM can not contain any +instructions, but the ITCM can actually contain data. +The size of DTCM or ITCM is minimum 4KiB so the typical +minimum configuration is 4KiB ITCM and 4KiB DTCM. + +ARM CPUs have special registers to read out status, physical +location and size of TCM memories. arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h +defines a CPUID_TCM register that you can read out from the +system control coprocessor. Documentation from ARM can be found +at http://infocenter.arm.com, search for "TCM Status Register" +to see documents for all CPUs. Reading this register you can +determine if ITCM (bits 1-0) and/or DTCM (bit 17-16) is present +in the machine. + +There is further a TCM region register (search for "TCM Region +Registers" at the ARM site) that can report and modify the location +size of TCM memories at runtime. This is used to read out and modify +TCM location and size. Notice that this is not a MMU table: you +actually move the physical location of the TCM around. At the +place you put it, it will mask any underlying RAM from the +CPU so it is usually wise not to overlap any physical RAM with +the TCM. + +The TCM memory can then be remapped to another address again using +the MMU, but notice that the TCM is often used in situations where +the MMU is turned off. To avoid confusion the current Linux +implementation will map the TCM 1 to 1 from physical to virtual +memory in the location specified by the kernel. Currently Linux +will map ITCM to 0xfffe0000 and on, and DTCM to 0xfffe8000 and +on, supporting a maximum of 32KiB of ITCM and 32KiB of DTCM. + +Newer versions of the region registers also support dividing these +TCMs in two separate banks, so for example an 8KiB ITCM is divided +into two 4KiB banks with its own control registers. The idea is to +be able to lock and hide one of the banks for use by the secure +world (TrustZone). + +TCM is used for a few things: + +- FIQ and other interrupt handlers that need deterministic + timing and cannot wait for cache misses. + +- Idle loops where all external RAM is set to self-refresh + retention mode, so only on-chip RAM is accessible by + the CPU and then we hang inside ITCM waiting for an + interrupt. + +- Other operations which implies shutting off or reconfiguring + the external RAM controller. + +There is an interface for using TCM on the ARM architecture +in <asm/tcm.h>. Using this interface it is possible to: + +- Define the physical address and size of ITCM and DTCM. + +- Tag functions to be compiled into ITCM. + +- Tag data and constants to be allocated to DTCM and ITCM. + +- Have the remaining TCM RAM added to a special + allocation pool with gen_pool_create() and gen_pool_add() + and provice tcm_alloc() and tcm_free() for this + memory. Such a heap is great for things like saving + device state when shutting off device power domains. + +A machine that has TCM memory shall select HAVE_TCM from +arch/arm/Kconfig for itself. Code that needs to use TCM shall +#include <asm/tcm.h> + +Functions to go into itcm can be tagged like this: +int __tcmfunc foo(int bar); + +Since these are marked to become long_calls and you may want +to have functions called locally inside the TCM without +wasting space, there is also the __tcmlocalfunc prefix that +will make the call relative. + +Variables to go into dtcm can be tagged like this:: + + int __tcmdata foo; + +Constants can be tagged like this:: + + int __tcmconst foo; + +To put assembler into TCM just use:: + + .section ".tcm.text" or .section ".tcm.data" + +respectively. + +Example code:: + + #include <asm/tcm.h> + + /* Uninitialized data */ + static u32 __tcmdata tcmvar; + /* Initialized data */ + static u32 __tcmdata tcmassigned = 0x2BADBABEU; + /* Constant */ + static const u32 __tcmconst tcmconst = 0xCAFEBABEU; + + static void __tcmlocalfunc tcm_to_tcm(void) + { + int i; + for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) + tcmvar ++; + } + + static void __tcmfunc hello_tcm(void) + { + /* Some abstract code that runs in ITCM */ + int i; + for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { + tcmvar ++; + } + tcm_to_tcm(); + } + + static void __init test_tcm(void) + { + u32 *tcmem; + int i; + + hello_tcm(); + printk("Hello TCM executed from ITCM RAM\n"); + + printk("TCM variable from testrun: %u @ %p\n", tcmvar, &tcmvar); + tcmvar = 0xDEADBEEFU; + printk("TCM variable: 0x%x @ %p\n", tcmvar, &tcmvar); + + printk("TCM assigned variable: 0x%x @ %p\n", tcmassigned, &tcmassigned); + + printk("TCM constant: 0x%x @ %p\n", tcmconst, &tcmconst); + + /* Allocate some TCM memory from the pool */ + tcmem = tcm_alloc(20); + if (tcmem) { + printk("TCM Allocated 20 bytes of TCM @ %p\n", tcmem); + tcmem[0] = 0xDEADBEEFU; + tcmem[1] = 0x2BADBABEU; + tcmem[2] = 0xCAFEBABEU; + tcmem[3] = 0xDEADBEEFU; + tcmem[4] = 0x2BADBABEU; + for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) + printk("TCM tcmem[%d] = %08x\n", i, tcmem[i]); + tcm_free(tcmem, 20); + } + } |