TI K3 SOCs have msmc sram, part of it can be configured as L3 cache depending upon system firmware configuration file.
This could be possible to have no L3 cache or variable size of L3 cache. In either case top of 64KB of SRAM has to be reserved for system firmware called tifs.
https://software-dl.ti.com/tisci/esd/latest/2_tisci_msgs/general/core.html?h... Section: TISCI_MSG_QUERY_MSMC.
But u-boot as part of fix up is deleting sysfw and l3cache node before passing DT to OS https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/arch/arm/mach-k3/common.c#L412
In my view we can handle in two ways 1) delete tifs node as well In this case, only accessible sram will be visible to OS https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230420081128.3617214-1-u-kumar1@ti.com/
2) make these nodes (tifs, atf and l3cache) as reserved, so that OS has complete view of memory. This is patch for option 2.
Nishanth suggested to discuss in k.org group https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230502230022.5pjywy6h7oqrkmwh@elusive/
So sending this patch for suggestion for selection right option. Also other options are welcome.
Udit Kumar (1): arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721s2: Add reserved status in msmc node.
arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721s2-main.dtsi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)