[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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