Re: RISC-V nommu support v2

[Vladimir Murzin]

On 6/25/19 8:31 AM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 06:08:50 PDT (-0700), vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> On 6/24/19 12:54 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:47:07PM +0100, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>>>> Since you are using binfmt_flat which is kind of 32-bit only I was expecting to see
>>>> CONFIG_COMPAT (or something similar to that, like ILP32) enabled, yet I could not
>>>> find it.
>>>
>>> There is no such thing in RISC-V. I don't know of any 64-bit RISC-V
>>> cpu that can actually run 32-bit RISC-V code, although in theory that
>>> is possible. There also is nothing like the x86 x32 or mips n32 mode
>>> available either for now.
>>>
>>> But it turns out that with a few fixes to binfmt_flat it can run 64-bit
>>> binaries just fine. I sent that series out a while ago, and IIRC you
>>> actually commented on it.
>>>
>>
>> True, yet my observation was that elf2flt utility assumes that address
>> space cannot exceed 32-bit (for header and absolute relocations). So,
>> from my limited point of view straightforward way to guarantee that would
>> be to build incoming elf in 32-bit mode (it is why I mentioned COMPAT/ILP32).
>>
>> Also one of your patches expressed somewhat related idea
>>
>> "binfmt_flat isn't the right binary format for huge executables to
>> start with"
>>
>> Since you said there is no support for compat/ilp32, probably I'm missing some
>> toolchain magic?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Vladimir
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> Subject:ÂÂÂÂ Re: RISC-V nommu support v2
> In-Reply-To: <20190624131633.GB10746@xxxxxx>
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 06:16:33 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 02:08:50PM +0100, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>>> True, yet my observation was that elf2flt utility assumes that address
>>> space cannot exceed 32-bit (for header and absolute relocations). So,
>>> from my limited point of view straightforward way to guarantee that would
>>> be to build incoming elf in 32-bit mode (it is why I mentioned COMPAT/ILP32).
>>>
>>> Also one of your patches expressed somewhat related idea
>>>
>>> "binfmt_flat isn't the right binary format for huge executables to
>>> start with"
>>>
>>> Since you said there is no support for compat/ilp32, probably I'm missing some
>>> toolchain magic?
>>
>> There is no magic except for the tiny elf2flt patch, which for
>> now is just in the buildroot repo pointed to in the cover letter
>> (and which I plan to upstream once the kernel support has landed
>> in Linus' tree). We only support 32-bit code and data address spaces,
>> but we otherwise use the normal RISC-V ABI, that is 64-bit longs and
>> pointers.
> 
> The medlow code model on RISC-V essentially enforces this -- technically it
> enforces a 32-bit region centered around address 0, but it's not that hard to
> stay away from negative addresses. That said, as long as elf2flt gives you an
> error it should be fine because all medlow is going to do is give you a
> different looking error message.
> 

Thanks for explanation!

Vladimir