[PATCH 0/3] Move kernel mapping outside the linear mapping
Palmer Dabbelt
palmer at dabbelt.com
Wed Mar 10 02:54:28 GMT 2021
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:04:50 PST (-0800), alex at ghiti.fr wrote:
> I decided to split sv48 support in small series to ease the review.
>
> This patchset pushes the kernel mapping (modules and BPF too) to the last
> 4GB of the 64bit address space, this allows to:
> - implement relocatable kernel (that will come later in another
> patchset) that requires to move the kernel mapping out of the linear
> mapping to avoid to copy the kernel at a different physical address.
> - have a single kernel that is not relocatable (and then that avoids the
> performance penalty imposed by PIC kernel) for both sv39 and sv48.
>
> The first patch implements this behaviour, the second patch introduces a
> documentation that describes the virtual address space layout of the 64bit
> kernel and the last patch is taken from my sv48 series where I simply added
> the dump of the modules/kernel/BPF mapping.
>
> I removed the Reviewed-by on the first patch since it changed enough from
> last time and deserves a second look.
>
> Alexandre Ghiti (3):
> riscv: Move kernel mapping outside of linear mapping
> Documentation: riscv: Add documentation that describes the VM layout
> riscv: Prepare ptdump for vm layout dynamic addresses
>
> Documentation/riscv/index.rst | 1 +
> Documentation/riscv/vm-layout.rst | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/riscv/boot/loader.lds.S | 3 +-
> arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h | 18 ++++++-
> arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 37 +++++++++----
> arch/riscv/include/asm/set_memory.h | 1 +
> arch/riscv/kernel/head.S | 3 +-
> arch/riscv/kernel/module.c | 6 +--
> arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c | 3 ++
> arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +-
> arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 13 +++++
> arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
> arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c | 9 ++++
> arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c | 2 +-
> arch/riscv/mm/ptdump.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++-----
> 15 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/riscv/vm-layout.rst
This generally looks good, but I'm getting a bunch of checkpatch warnings and
some conflicts, do you mind fixing those up (and including your other kasan
patch, as that's likely to conflict)?
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