[PATCH V5 1/3] riscv: Use global mappings for kernel pages
guoren at kernel.org
guoren at kernel.org
Sun Jun 6 02:03:57 PDT 2021
From: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
We map kernel pages into all addresses space, so they can be marked as
global. This allows hardware to avoid flushing the kernel mappings when
moving between address spaces.
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 9469f46..346a3c6 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@
| _PAGE_WRITE \
| _PAGE_PRESENT \
| _PAGE_ACCESSED \
- | _PAGE_DIRTY)
+ | _PAGE_DIRTY \
+ | _PAGE_GLOBAL)
#define PAGE_KERNEL __pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_READ __pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL & ~_PAGE_WRITE)
--
2.7.4
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