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Dynamic (Runtime) ITCM (Instruction Scratchpad Memory) Allocation

Amir Mahdi Hosseini Monazzah
Note: This was originally posted on 12th May 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi,

These days my important question is about how to allocate ITCM (Instruction Scratchpad Memory) of ARM926ej-s. for doing this, i use scatter loading and part my code to some definite area of my memory, each area contain a function, then i define a function pointer and before running this part of program with aid of memcopy() function, i copy the function from it's address in main memory to ITCM Area, and change the address of function pointer to the new location of it in ITCM. this method already works for ordinary program wich has only operation like multiply, divide and ..., but when the function is more complex and use c library function or any other linker symbols, then after relocating the program crash, when it arrive at that symbols. for debugging this problem i searched the disassembled code and find that by memcopy() i can't take thew linker symbols to the itcm, infact after relocation a primary code like " BL _rt_sdiv" changes to "BL 0xffef0000". i've also try to constructe a symdef file and use it as linker symbol table, but unfortunately this method didn't work.

now my primary question is "How to Allocate The ITCM dynamically without needing to implement all the c function library again?"

Sincerely,
A.M.H.Monazzah
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    Note: This was originally posted on 13th May 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    Can you define "crash" in more detail? Does it segfault, give invalid instruction, etc?

    If you have a mix of ARM and Thumb then make sure you set the bottom bit of the jump address to 1 if the function in TCM is a Thumb entry point, or you are going to get interworking faults.


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  • Arm Employee Badge
    Note: This was originally posted on 13th May 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

    Can you define "crash" in more detail? Does it segfault, give invalid instruction, etc?

    If you have a mix of ARM and Thumb then make sure you set the bottom bit of the jump address to 1 if the function in TCM is a Thumb entry point, or you are going to get interworking faults.


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