[PATCH V3 07/17] riscv: compat: Re-implement TASK_SIZE for COMPAT_32BIT

[Guo Ren]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 8:53 PM David Laight <David.Laight at aculab.com> wrote:
>
> > > Limit 32-bit compatible process in 0-2GB virtual address range
> > > (which is enough for real scenarios), because it could avoid
> > > address sign extend problem when 32-bit enter 64-bit and ease
> > > software design.
>
> Eh?
> I thought nearly all the other 32bit unix ports (of any flavour)
> put the user-kernel boundary at 3GB.
No, riscv32 is about 2.4G, csky is 2G/2.5G.

> (Apart from some very old sparc ones that use 3.5GB.)
>
> 2GB is used by Windows.
>
> I think the x86-64 32bit compat code even puts the boundary at 4GB.
Yes, we could give rv32 compat for 4GB with some effort. But it's unnecessary.

There are no history issues for rv32, we use compat mode to reduce
memory footprint. eg: only 64MB memory available.

At end compat for 4GB is another topic, let's give the initial compat
for 2GB support to riscv.

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 Guo Ren

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