linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] RISC-V: Remove redundant trampoline page table

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Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:33:30 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@....com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] RISC-V: Remove redundant trampoline page table

>  
> -	/* Compute satp for kernel page tables, but don't load it yet */
> +	/* Compute satp for kernel page directory, but don't load it yet */


>  	/*
> -	 * Load trampoline page directory, which will cause us to trap to
> +	 * Load kernel page directory, which will cause us to trap to
>  	 * stvec if VA != PA, or simply fall through if VA == PA
>  	 */

If we want to nitpick comments I think this should take about the
page table root or something like that.

Otherwise the idea looks good, but I really think we should do this
before all the changes to the setup_vm code.