Problem in getting shared memory access on P1022RDK

[tiejun.chen]

Arshad, Farrukh wrote:
> How can I verify if the memory mapped is coherent on both cores. My memory partitioning is given below
> 
> Core		Base Address		Size
> Core 0		0x0000,0000		0x1000,0000	--> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START = bootm_low = Base Address
> Core 1		0x1000,0000		0x0C00,0000	--> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START = bootm_low = Base Address
> Shared Mem	0x1C00,0000		0x0400,0000

Was the kernel option, CONFIG_SMP, enabled for both two kernels?

CONFIG_SMP would affect the memory attribute for cache coherency. Maybe you
should make sure if kernel have a appropriate memory attribute by dumping TLB entry.

Tiejun

> 
> Regards,
> Farrukh Arshad
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood at freescale.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:10 PM
> To: Arshad, Farrukh
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: Problem in getting shared memory access on P1022RDK
> 
> On 01/03/2012 03:42 AM, Arshad, Farrukh wrote:
>> Adding more to it,
>>
>>  
>>
>> When I write from Core 1 on the shared memory region it is visible at 
>> Core 0 and it can read what I have written from Core 1 but when I 
>> write from Core 0 on this shared memory it is not visible on Core 1.
> 
> Is the memory mapped coherent on both cores?
> 
> -Scott