查看6410数据手册可以看到,内存开始地址应该是0x50000000,而实际在real6410开发板使用过程中U-boot加载Linux内核都是加载到0xC0008000处开始运行,我猜测(还没有看代码来验证猜测)这个是因为Linux启动内核的地址为0xC0008000,而U-boot为了和Linux保持一致,故对内存也做了映射,方便用户使用。下面先以内核2.6.28为例来先来看一下Linux中这个内存地址的由来。
首先看启动代码代码arch/arm/kernel/head.S
29 #define KERNEL_RAM_VADDR (PAGE_OFFSET +TEXT_OFFSET)//定义虚拟内存首地址
30 #define KERNEL_RAM_PADDR (PHYS_OFFSET +TEXT_OFFSET)//定义实际物理内存地址
PAGE_OFFSET的出处
代码arch/arm/include/asm/memory.c
27 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
28
29 /*
30 * PAGE_OFFSET - the virtual address ofthe start of the kernel image
31 * TASK_SIZE - the maximum size of a userspace task.
32 * TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE - the lowerboundary of the mmap VM area
33 */
34 #define PAGE_OFFSET UL(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET)
代码include/linux/autoconf.h
#define CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET 0xc0000000
PHYS_OFFSET 的出处
代码arch/arm/mach-s3c6400/include/mach/memory.h//与6400平台相关的内存设置
#define PHYS_OFFSET UL(0x50000000)
TEXT_OFFSET的定义在arch/arm/Makefile中,这个值是内核所在位置的实际偏移量,具体对这个值的说明看文件arch/arm/kernel/head.S。
38/*
39 *swapper_pg_dir is the virtual address of the initial page table.
40 *We place the page tables 16K below KERNEL_RAM_ADDR. Therefore, we must
41 *make sure that KERNEL_RAM_ADDR is correctly set. Currently, we expect
42 *the least significant 16 bits to be 0x8000, but we could probably
43 *relax this restriction to KERNEL_RAM_ADDR >= PAGE_OFFSET + 0x4000.
44 */
也就是说,从地址KERNEL_RAM_VADDR开始的至少0x4000用来存放内核页表,而存放内核页表的空间值建议是0x8000。