[PATCH v5 0/4] RISC-V: mm: Make SV48 the default address space

Charlie Jenkins charlie at rivosinc.com
Fri Jul 14 09:36:45 PDT 2023


On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 12:17:00PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 05:13:59PM -0700, Charlie Jenkins wrote:
> > Make sv48 the default address space for mmap as some applications
> > currently depend on this assumption. Users can now select a
> > desired address space using a non-zero hint address to mmap. Previously,
> > requesting the default address space from mmap by passing zero as the hint
> > address would result in using the largest address space possible. Some
> > applications depend on empty bits in the virtual address space, like Go and
> > Java, so this patch provides more flexibility for application developers.
> 
> The patchwork automation failed to apply this, what is the base for the
> series?

I forgot to pull in the changes to the riscv selftests so the conflict
is in that Makefile. I will send out a v6 with the correct base.

> 
> > 
> > -Charlie
> > 
> > ---
> > v5:
> > - Minor wording change in documentation
> > - Change some parenthesis in arch_get_mmap_ macros
> > - Added case for addr==0 in arch_get_mmap_ because without this, programs would
> >   crash if RLIMIT_STACK was modified before executing the program. This was
> >   tested using the libhugetlbfs tests. 
> > 
> > v4:
> > - Split testcases/document patch into test cases, in-code documentation, and
> >   formal documentation patches
> > - Modified the mmap_base macro to be more legible and better represent memory
> >   layout
> > - Fixed documentation to better reflect the implmentation
> > - Renamed DEFAULT_VA_BITS to MMAP_VA_BITS
> > - Added additional test case for rlimit changes
> > ---
> > 
> > Charlie Jenkins (4):
> >   RISC-V: mm: Restrict address space for sv39,sv48,sv57
> >   RISC-V: mm: Add tests for RISC-V mm
> >   RISC-V: mm: Update pgtable comment documentation
> >   RISC-V: mm: Document mmap changes
> > 
> >  Documentation/riscv/vm-layout.rst             |  22 +++
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h                  |   2 +-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h              |  20 ++-
> >  arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h            |  46 +++++-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/riscv/Makefile        |   2 +-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/.gitignore   |   1 +
> >  tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/Makefile     |  21 +++
> >  .../selftests/riscv/mm/testcases/mmap.c       | 133 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  8 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/.gitignore
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/testcases/mmap.c
> > 
> > -- 
> > 2.41.0
> > 





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