Re: [PATCH 17/17] riscv: add nommu support

[Vladimir Murzin]

Hi Christoph,

On 6/24/19 6:43 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The kernel runs in M-mode without using page tables, and thus can't run
> bare metal without help from additional firmware.
> 
> Most of the patch is just stubbing out code not needed without page
> tables, but there is an interesting detail in the signals implementation:
> 
>  - The normal RISC-V syscall ABI only implements rt_sigreturn as VDSO
>    entry point, but the ELF VDSO is not supported for nommu Linux.
>    We instead copy the code to call the syscall onto the stack.
> 
> In addition to enabling the nommu code a new defconfig for a small
> kernel image that can run in nommu mode on qemu is also provided, to run
> a kernel in qemu you can use the following command line:
> 
> qemu-system-riscv64 -smp 2 -m 64 -machine virt -nographic \
> 	-kernel arch/riscv/boot/loader \
> 	-drive file=rootfs.ext2,format=raw,id=hd0 \
> 	-device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0
> 
> Contains contributions from Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@xxxxxxx>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                      | 24 +++++---
>  arch/riscv/configs/nommu_virt_defconfig | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/elf.h            |  4 +-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/futex.h          |  6 ++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/io.h             |  4 ++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h            |  3 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h           | 12 +++-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h        |  2 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h        | 38 ++++++++----
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/tlbflush.h       |  7 ++-
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/uaccess.h        |  4 ++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile              |  3 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S               | 11 ++++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/head.S                |  6 ++
>  arch/riscv/kernel/signal.c              | 17 +++++-
>  arch/riscv/lib/Makefile                 |  8 +--
>  arch/riscv/mm/Makefile                  |  3 +-
>  arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c              |  2 +
>  arch/riscv/mm/context.c                 |  2 +
>  arch/riscv/mm/init.c                    |  2 +
>  20 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/configs/nommu_virt_defconfig
> 

snip...

>  
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/configs/nommu_virt_defconfig b/arch/riscv/configs/nommu_virt_defconfig
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..cf74e179bf90
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/riscv/configs/nommu_virt_defconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
> +# CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION is not set
> +CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=16
> +CONFIG_PRINTK_SAFE_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=12
> +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
> +# CONFIG_RD_BZIP2 is not set
> +# CONFIG_RD_LZMA is not set
> +# CONFIG_RD_XZ is not set
> +# CONFIG_RD_LZO is not set
> +# CONFIG_RD_LZ4 is not set
> +CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
> +CONFIG_EXPERT=y
> +# CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL is not set
> +# CONFIG_FHANDLE is not set
> +# CONFIG_BASE_FULL is not set
> +# CONFIG_EPOLL is not set
> +# CONFIG_SIGNALFD is not set
> +# CONFIG_TIMERFD is not set
> +# CONFIG_EVENTFD is not set
> +# CONFIG_AIO is not set
> +# CONFIG_IO_URING is not set
> +# CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS is not set
> +# CONFIG_MEMBARRIER is not set
> +# CONFIG_KALLSYMS is not set
> +# CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is not set
> +# CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is not set
> +CONFIG_SLOB=y
> +# CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT is not set
> +# CONFIG_MMU is not set
> +CONFIG_MAXPHYSMEM_2GB=y
> +CONFIG_SMP=y
> +CONFIG_CMDLINE="root=/dev/vda rw earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0x10000000,115200n8 console=ttyS0"
> +CONFIG_CMDLINE_FORCE=y
> +# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG is not set
> +CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
> +# CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION is not set
> +# CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is not set
> +# CONFIG_MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE is not set
> +# CONFIG_MQ_IOSCHED_KYBER is not set
> +CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT=y

IIUC, RISC-V requires stack pointer to be 16 byte aligned, but flat loader would
align stack pointer to max(sizeof(void *), ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN). So, I think you
might want to define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN.

Cheers
Vladimir