Hello, experts:
My platform has a Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU, It supports trustzone tech.
I tried to change NSACR.TL bit, but It needs to change in the secure state.
I checked NSACR value in non-secure state and NSACR value that I changed is changed aperiodically.
For example print value;
nsacr : 0x00000000nsacr : 0x00000000nsacr : 0x00000000
....nsacr : 0x00200000nsacr : 0x00200000nsacr : 0x00200000....
Is NSACR.TL changed correctly?
Why NSACR value changed aperiodcially?
Best wishes,
Thank you for your reply.
I have been using Sabre Lite(Cortex-A9) with Linux and I tried to control NSACR.TL bit.
I'm awfully sorry for the wrong information.
Print result is 0x00020000.
According to Cortex-A9 TRM, NSACR.TL(17 bits) determines if lockable TLB entries can be allocated in Non-secure state.
I have another question, is Linux booting in Secure state?
AFAIK runs Linux in normal world (non-secure). The bootloader (U-Boot or even the first stage boot-loader) will switch to non-secure.
If you want to change NSACR you have to run at least a secure monitor.But if you have software running in privileged mode, you can check the SCR.NS (MRC p15, 0, <Rt>, c1, c1, 0 ; Read SCR into Rt).