linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move kernel mapping outside the linear mapping

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Message-ID: <fdc52c40-3324-fc9a-ffda-926ced856a80@ghiti.fr>
Date:   Sat, 20 Mar 2021 04:48:14 -0400
From:   Alex Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
Cc:     corbet@....net, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        aou@...s.berkeley.edu, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        aryabinin@...tuozzo.com, glider@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move kernel mapping outside the linear mapping

Le 3/9/21 à 9:54 PM, Palmer Dabbelt a écrit :
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:04:50 PST (-0800), alex@...ti.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)?

I have just tried to rebase this on for-next, and that quite conflicts 
with Vitaly's XIP patch, I'm fixing this and post a v3.

Alex