Re: [PATCH v4] riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping

[Alexandre Ghiti]

Hi Conor,

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:11 PM Conor Dooley <conor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 12:28:02PM +0100, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> > During the early page table creation, we used to set the mapping for
> > PAGE_OFFSET to the kernel load address: but the kernel load address is
> > always offseted by PMD_SIZE which makes it impossible to use PUD/P4D/PGD
> > pages as this physical address is not aligned on PUD/P4D/PGD size (whereas
> > PAGE_OFFSET is).
> >
> > But actually we don't have to establish this mapping (ie set va_pa_offset)
> > that early in the boot process because:
> >
> > - first, setup_vm installs a temporary kernel mapping and among other
> >   things, discovers the system memory,
> > - then, setup_vm_final creates the final kernel mapping and takes
> >   advantage of the discovered system memory to create the linear
> >   mapping.
> >
> > During the first phase, we don't know the start of the system memory and
> > then until the second phase is finished, we can't use the linear mapping at
> > all and phys_to_virt/virt_to_phys translations must not be used because it
> > would result in a different translation from the 'real' one once the final
> > mapping is installed.
> >
> > So here we simply delay the initialization of va_pa_offset to after the
> > system memory discovery. But to make sure noone uses the linear mapping
> > before, we add some guard in the DEBUG_VIRTUAL config.
> >
> > Finally we can use PUD/P4D/PGD hugepages when possible, which will result
> > in a better TLB utilization.
> >
> > Note that we rely on the firmware to protect itself using PMP.
> >
> > Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> # DT bits
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> No good on !MMU unfortunately Alex:
> ../arch/riscv/mm/init.c:222:2: error: use of undeclared identifier 'riscv_pfn_base'
>         riscv_pfn_base = PFN_DOWN(phys_ram_base);
>         ^
>
> Reproduces with nommu_virt_defconfig.

Thanks, fixed locally, I'll push the v5 soon.

Thanks again,

Alex

>
> Thanks,
> Conor.