D cache management on Teensy4.0

[cyrille]

Hello,

Is there a way to declare a part of the RAM as non cacheable?
My app has a large data set (500KB) in flash, marked as PROGMEM.

At this point in time, I am assuming that access to that dataset means that it will be copy in the Dcache..
However, since I scan said dataset linearly, this will just trash the data cache, but not help as the data is used just once per scan.
Hence, I would like it NOT to be cached.
On systems with MMU, one can specify which part of the memory needs to be in the various caches (in 4KB blocks)... but I am not sure that there is a MMU here since this is a cortex M.

Similarly, they are some parts of the RAM that I would like to not see in the cache (the screen memory to be exact).

Is there any way to configure the cache with that type of granularity?

Thanks,
Cyrille

 

[cyrille]

Hello,

looking at the ARM doc, I managed to look at the MPU map for the Teensy 4.0 and found the bellow...

does anyone know why there are 32 bytes at 0x2000f2c0 with a special setting?

Cyrille

startup rom? special for first 32 bytes
r:0 @0x00000000 exec permriv:NO /prv:No memaccess:Strong order noshared subreg:0 size:0 enabled
r:1 @0x00000000 noexec permriv:RW /prv:RW memaccess:norm no cache noshared subreg:0 size:512K enabled
r:2 @0x00000000 noexec permriv:NO /prv:No memaccess:devicereserved noshared subreg:0 size:32 enabled

ROMCP
r:3 @0x00200000 noexec permriv:RO /prv:Ro memaccess:Norm write through noshared subreg:0 size:128K enabled

512K DTCM
r:4 @0x20000000 exec permriv:RW /prv:RW memaccess:norm no cache noshared subreg:0 size:512K enabled

Why 32 bytes here?
r:5 @0x2000f2c0 exec permriv:NO /prv:No memaccess:Strong order noshared subreg:0 size:32 enabled

1MB OCRam
r:6 @0x20200000 exec permriv:RW /prv:RW memaccess:norm: write back, write/read allocate noshared subreg:0 size:1M enabled

HW registers
r:7 @0x40000000 exec permriv:RW /prv:RW memaccess:devicereserved noshared subreg:0 size:64M enabled

Flex SPI
r:8 @0x60000000 noexec permriv:RO /prv:Ro memaccess:norm: write back, write/read allocate noshared subreg:0 size:16M enabled

Flex SPI 2
r:9 @0x70000000 exec permriv:RO /prv:Ro memaccess:norm: write back, write/read allocate noshared subreg:0 size:256M enabled
r:10@0x70000000 exec permriv:RW /prv:RW memaccess:norm: write back, write/read allocate noshared subreg:0 size:16M enabled