Instruction OCM

Sergey Temerkhanov temerkhanov at yandex.ru
Tue May 20 04:53:22 EST 2008


mojtaba wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I cannot run Linux when I have an instruction OCM in my design but, 
> without instruction OCM everything is fine. I tried to do some 
> debugging. It seems that the Linux memory management unit has a 
> problem with that.  After entering the MMU initialization phase, it 
> suddenly jumps to address 0x00000700 it get stuck there. Is there 
> anybody who have tried a design with instruction OCM? Do I need to do 
> special configuration for the Linux kernel?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mojtaba
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Address 0x700 means invalid opcode exception.
If instruction OCM is same as data OCM (I think it's so) then any MMU 
mapping is not applicable to this region at all as OCM controller 
decodes virtual addresses bypassing any MMU mappings.
In your situation MMU maps virtual address of OCM to physical address 
containing some random data and CPU tries to execute it. So you get 
invalid opcode exception.


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