Hi,
I am using TI AM335x BeagleBone. My aim is to get fast and reliable time values from user-space using dmtimer.
When I I read (and print) tick values of DMTimer2 though /dev/mem, I have the following:
2703519715 2703525474 2703527633 2703529333 2703530952 2703532576 2703538448 2703541914 2703543656 2703545281 2703546900
However, when I invoke device driver with mmap operation and then in user space interact with this device, I have a strange behaviour.
Ticks are repeated periodically:
1287902680
1287911282
1287911282
1287911282
1287911282
1287911282
1287925948
1287925948
1287925948
1287935869
1287935869
1287935869
1287944825
1287944825
1287950109
1287950109
1287959332
I am not sure, but it looks like L1/L2 caches are overflowed. My question is what can cause this behaviour. And if it is CPU caches, how they can be cleared.
I found this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3446138/how-to-clear-cpu-l1-and-l2-cache, but I doubt how I can apply this method.
Do you have any suggestions? I will appreciate any help.
If it is necessary, I post here briefly the way how I obtaine these ticks vs driver.
1. remapping of a specific region in kernel space (0x48040000 - DMTIMER2 register start address):
static int simple_remap_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
unsigned long off = vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
// generate the correct page frame number
unsigned long pfn = (0x48040000 + off) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
// vsize is the requested size of virtual memory
unsigned long vsize = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
// psize is the physical I/O size that is left after the offset has been specified
unsigned long psize = 0x48040000 + 32 - off;
// refuses to map addresses that extend beyond the allowed memory range
if (vsize > psize)
{
return -EINVAL;
}
if (remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, pfn, vsize, vma->vm_page_prot))
{
return
-EAGAIN;
}
vma->vm_ops = &simple_remap_vm_ops;
simple_vma_open(vma);
return 0;
}
2. in user space I do it approximately in the following way:
volatile unsigned char* dmt2_regs;
dmt2_regs = (unsigned char*) mmap(NULL, 0x1000, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
while (true)
{
uint32_t t0 = * (uint32_t*) ( dmt2_regs + 0x3c );
std::cout << t0 << std::endl;
}
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#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
#include <signal.h>
#define TIMER4_START_addr 0x48044000
#define TIDR 0x00
#define TIOCP_CFG 0x10
int main()
{
unsigned int reg;
char *timer_addr = NULL;
printf("\n Start Pgm");
int mem, integer;
if ((mem = open ("/dev/mem", O_RDWR | O_SYNC)) < 0)
{
printf("Cannot open /dev/mem\n");
return 1;
}
printf("Opened /dev/mem\n");
timer_addr = mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, mem, TIMER4_START_addr);
printf("GPIO mapped to %p\n", timer_addr);
reg = *((int*) timer_addr);
printf("GPIO1 configuration: %x\n", reg);
return 0;
}
Regards
Anand