issue with DCache on STM32F746ZG

[developer2]

Posted on March 11, 2018 at 16:54

Hello,

i'm having issue on STM32F746ZG, connected with ETH PHY through RGMII, and i'm having also enabled USB HS using ULPI,

when i not enable DCache at start everything works perfectly ...

but when i enable SCB_EnableDCache(), USART DMA TX is sending wrong data, ethernet does not work both ways (RX+TX),

i'm sure that DMATxDscrTab is at 0x20010280 , DMARxDscrTab is at 0x20010200, Rx_Buff is at 0x2004c000, Tx_Buff is at 0x2004d7d0,

i tried :

- before executing SCB_EnableDCache() i executed: MPU config region 1K starting at 0x20010000, with mode NotBufferable,

- before executing SCB_EnableDCache() i executed: MPU config region 1K starting at 0x20010000, with mode NotCacheable,

... no success at all,

... MPU_Config taken from ST's examples in HAL,

- without DCache everything works on 100% ...

please could you help me to find out what to do to get DCache usable ?

Thanks for all replies ...

Kind regards,

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on March 11, 2018 at 18:24

Use DTCM memory for the buffers, flush or invalidate the cache/buffers based on usage, or disable the cache and sharing on 0x20040000 region. 

[developer2]

Posted on March 11, 2018 at 19:17

Hi Clive,

please could you write a little bit more details ?

DTCM memory for buffers ? which buffers ? ethernet DMA descriptors or data buffers ? because based on Reference manual: 'The AHB masters support concurrent SRAM accesses (from the Ethernet or the USB OTG

HS): for instance, the Ethernet MAC can read/write from/to SRAM2 while the CPU isreading/writing from/to SRAM1' ... so i targeted data buffers into SRAM2 at base address 0x2004c000,

flush or invalidate buffers you mean for example sequence:

SCB_CleanInvalidateDCache();

HAL_UART_Transmit_DMA();

 ? ... this i tried but data still wrong on the opposite side and ethernet still not working ...

disable cache and sharing on 0x20040000 ? you mean something like this:

  MPU_InitStruct.IsBufferable = MPU_ACCESS_BUFFERABLE;

  MPU_InitStruct.IsCacheable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_CACHEABLE;  MPU_InitStruct.IsShareable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_SHAREABLE;

why 0x20040000 ? it's nearly to the end of SRAM1 ... did you mean setup on full SRAM1 ? or SRAM2 ? what amount do you propose ?

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on March 11, 2018 at 23:38

Put any structures where coherency would be an issue in DTCM, not cached, single cycle. Have different pools of memory, and allocate based on usage expectations.

How much memory, and how out of control the memory usage is, will dictate the complexity of your task. I'd suggest containing it as much as possible, in the cleanest way possible. What you want to try an avoid is having to copy stuff from unsafe areas to safe ones, or using blanket methods for all memory instead of targeted methods.

In SDMMC buffering, the invalidation is done on the buffer before/after depending on write/read. You can flag a region based on 32-byte alignment boundaries. Watch that you don't break your own data structures by throwing away pending write-backs. Here ST's code has a little more scope than I'd like, and I've seen one complaint about it breaking things. I've seen unscoped invalidation break regular code.

♯ if (ENABLE_SD_DMA_CACHE_MAINTENANCE == 1)

                  uint32_t alignedAddr;          /*             the SCB_InvalidateDCache_by_Addr() requires a 32-Bit aligned address,             adjust the address and the D-Cache size to invalidate accordingly.          */          alignedAddr = (uint32_t)buff & ~3;          SCB_InvalidateDCache_by_Addr((uint32_t*)alignedAddr, count*BLOCKSIZE + ((uint32_t)buff - alignedAddr)); ♯ endif

https://community.st.com/message/93947

 

You mentioned the address range, you could configure the MPU with suitable address/granularity. At 0x20040000 I'd presume up to 256KB would align suitably.

I was thinking of 0x24000000 range in H7

https://community.st.com/message/186230-re-stm32h743zi-nucleo-uart-dma-experiment-for-help?commentID=186230 ♯ comment-186230

 

[developer2]

Posted on March 12, 2018 at 11:51

Hi Clive,

so i tried:

EthIf RxBuf addr: 0x2004c000 @SRAM2, TxBuf: 0x2004d7d0 @SRAM2, DMA Descrp: 0x20000200 @DTCM 0x20000280 @DTCM

... USART DMA works correctly with enabled DCache, ethernet does not work at all ...

then i tried patch from other thread , to be exact : __DSB(); in function HAL_ETH_TransmitFrame(...),

ethernet still not working, then i tried instead : SCB_InvalidateDCache(); .... i got hardfaults everytime ...

then i tried:

  MPU_InitStruct.IsBufferable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_BUFFERABLE;

  MPU_InitStruct.IsCacheable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_CACHEABLE;  MPU_InitStruct.IsShareable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_SHAREABLE;

for whole SRAM1 & SRAM2

result: i'm getting hardfaults on ethernet initialization :(

and another question ... is there some difference between disabled DCache and between disabled cacheability of SRAM1 & SRAM2 ?