Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Two-stagged initial page table setup

[Anup Patel]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:31 AM Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patchset implements two-stagged initial page table setup using fixmap
> to avoid mapping non-existent RAM and also reduce high_memory consumed by
> initial page tables.
>
> The patchset is based on Linux-5.2-rc3 and tested on SiFive Unleashed board
> and QEMU virt machine.
>
> These patches can be found in riscv_setup_vm_v5 branch of
> https//github.com/avpatel/linux.git
>
> Changes since v4:
> - Added dtb_early_va which points to DTB for early parsing
>
> Changes since v3:
> - Changed patch series subject.
> - Dropped PATCH1 because it's already merged
> - Dropped PATCH3 because trampoline page table handles a corner case
>   for 32bit systems where load address range overlaps kernel virtual
>   address range
> - Revamped PATCH for 4K aligned booting into two-stagged initial page
>   table setup
>
> Changes since v2:
> - Dropped PATCH2 because we have separate fix for Linux-5.1-rcX
> - Moved PATCH5 to PATCH2
> - Moved PATCH4 to PATCH3
> - The "Booting kernel from any 4KB aligned address" is now PATCH4
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Add kconfig option BOOT_PAGE_ALIGNED to enable 4KB aligned booting
> - Improved initial page table setup code to select best/biggest
>   possible mapping size based on load address alignment
> - Added PATCH4 to remove redundant trampoline page table
> - Added PATCH5 to fix memory reservation in setup_bootmem()
>
> Anup Patel (2):
>   RISC-V: Fix memory reservation in setup_bootmem()
>   RISC-V: Setup initial page tables in two stages
>
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/fixmap.h     |   5 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-64.h |   5 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h    |   8 +
>  arch/riscv/kernel/head.S            |  17 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/setup.c           |   6 +-
>  arch/riscv/mm/init.c                | 331 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  6 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1

Hi All,

Any comments on this series?

Regards,
Anup