Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: rockchip: Reserve unusable memory region on rk3066

["Huang, Tao" <huangtao@rock-chips.com>]

Hi, Paweł:
On 2016年10月10日 17:11, Paweł Jarosz wrote:
> W dniu 10.10.2016 o 09:18, Huang, Tao pisze:
>> Our IC guy need us tell them which master can not access such area, DMA
>> or EMMC Controller or GPU, etc? Could you tell me how to reproduce such
>> issue?
>> And we can confirm CPU core can access this memory through /dev/mem and
>> the test board is 1GB too. Personally, I don't think RK3066 has such
>> limit because when we verify this chip, we don't found such limit at all.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Huang, Tao
> I'm getting this on Ubuntu 16.04 with mainline kernel.
> My board always freezes when i type: "memtester 800M"
>
We try run memtest 800M with Linux kernel 4.8, which killed by OOM.
But if we run:
# memtester -p 0x9F000000 16K 1
memtester version 4.3.0 (32-bit)
Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Charles Cazabon.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 (only).

pagesize is 4096
pagesizemask is 0xfffff000
want 0MB (16384 bytes)
Loop 1/1:
   Stuck Address       : ok
   Random Value        : ok
   Compare XOR         : ok
   Compare SUB         : ok
   Compare MUL         : ok
   Compare DIV         : ok
   Compare OR          : ok
   Compare AND         : ok
   Sequential Increment: ok
   Solid Bits          : ok
   Block Sequential    : ok
   Checkerboard        : ok
   Bit Spread          : ok
   Bit Flip            : ok
   Walking Ones        : ok
   Walking Zeroes      : ok
   8-bit Writes        : ok
   16-bit Writes       : ok

So these memory should be fine to CPU core. Maybe your system just
freeze because out of memory.


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