How to access the ARM cache memory of RaspberryPI?

Question

I would like to enable or disable portion of ARM L2 's cache memory of raspberry PI. I am working on performance evaluation of raspberryPI by locking the cache memory of it. Please suggest me some ideas on this.

Answer 1

All you need to do is add the following to your /boot/config.txt file. Here is the source page.

disable_l2cache=1

disable_l2cache disable ARM access to GPU's L2 cache. Needs corresponding L2 disabled kernel. Default 0

But I think for this to actually work, you will need to compile a custom kernel. So replace your kernel.img with your custom one, which has the L2 cache disabled. Also have a look at berryboot which allows you to install different versions of the same Linux on your SD card.