linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next] riscv: mm: remove redundant trampoline PGD for 64bit

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Date:   Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:25:48 +0200
From:   Alex Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
To:     "Sunnanyong (Nanyong Sun, Intelligent Computing Solution Development
        Dep)" <sunnanyong@...wei.com>, paul.walmsley@...ive.com,
        palmer@...belt.com, aou@...s.berkeley.edu, anup.patel@....com
Cc:     linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        palmerdabbelt@...gle.com, atish.patra@....com,
        wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] riscv: mm: remove redundant trampoline PGD for
 64bit

Hi Nanyong,

Le 28/07/2021 à 05:09, Sunnanyong (Nanyong Sun, Intelligent Computing 
Solution Development Dep) a écrit :
> 在 2021/6/29 21:01, Alex Ghiti 写道:
> 
>> Hi Nanyong,
>>
>> Le 27/05/2021 à 16:48, Nanyong Sun a écrit :
>>> Remove redundant trampoline PGD for 64bit and add more comment
>>> for why 32bit systems need trampoline PGD.
>>>
>>> There was a patch and discussion similar to this,refer to
>>> the link [1][2].
>>>
>>> The trampoline PGD is redundant for 64bit systems because:
>>> 1. The early PGD covers the entire kernel mapping. Directly
>>> loading early PGD can achieve the result in boot stage.
>>> A more trampoline PGD makes code hard to understand.
>>> 2. Directly loading early PGD is safe in 64bit systems since
>>> the kernel virtual address starts as 0xFFFFxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>> which has a very big gap with RAM address.It won't fall into
>>> the corner case that 32bit system worrys.
>>> 3. Remove redundant trampoline PGD can benefit to code maintaince,
>>> because 64bit systems have more page table levels.For example:
>>> If we want to support SV48 which has 4 page table levels, we have
>>> to add a trampoline_pud and insert it before trampoline_pmd.
>>
>> I do agree with your last point about code maintenance and this would 
>> be a welcome improvement before I respin my sv48 series.
>>
>> Some comments below though.
>>
>>>
>>> Reference link:
>>> [1]https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20190325092234.5451-4-anup.patel@wdc.com/ 
>>>
>>> [2]https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/28/147
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@...wei.com>
>>> ---
>>>   arch/riscv/kernel/head.S | 13 +++++++++++--
>>>   arch/riscv/mm/init.c     | 21 +++++++--------------
>>>   2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
>>> index 89cc58ab52b4..1897b17c5fcc 100644
>>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
>>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/head.S
>>> @@ -93,12 +93,18 @@ relocate:
>>>       add a2, a2, a1
>>>       csrw CSR_TVEC, a2
>>
>> This is not needed in 64-bit then.
>>
>>
> I'm afraid this is still needed for 64-bit, which can convert the 
> physical address world to the virtual address world.
> 
> I also have made a experiment, it could not boot up if this is deleted.
> 

Yes you're right, sorry about that.

>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alex
>> .
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
>      Very thanks for your carefully review, I have updated to version 
> two just now : )
> 
> 

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Alex

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