Re: [PATCH 1/3] riscv: mm: Use hint address in mmap if available

[Yangyu Chen]

> On Jan 30, 2024, at 08:37, Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On riscv it is guaranteed that the address returned by mmap is less than
> the hint address. Allow mmap to return an address all the way up to
> addr, if provided, rather than just up to the lower address space.
> 
> This provides a performance benefit as well, allowing mmap to exit after
> checking that the address is in range rather than searching for a valid
> address.
> 
> It is possible to provide an address that uses at most the same number
> of bits, however it is significantly more computationally expensive to
> provide that number rather than setting the max to be the hint address.
> There is the instruction clz/clzw in Zbb that returns the highest set bit
> which could be used to performantly implement this, but it would still
> be slower than the current implementation. At worst case, half of the
> address would not be able to be allocated when a hint address is
> provided.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 21 ++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
> index f19f861cda54..f3ea5166e3b2 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h
> @@ -22,14 +22,11 @@
> ({ \
> unsigned long mmap_end; \
> typeof(addr) _addr = (addr); \
> - if ((_addr) == 0 || (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPAT) && is_compat_task())) \
> - mmap_end = STACK_TOP_MAX; \
> - else if ((_addr) >= VA_USER_SV57) \
> - mmap_end = STACK_TOP_MAX; \
> - else if ((((_addr) >= VA_USER_SV48)) && (VA_BITS >= VA_BITS_SV48)) \
> - mmap_end = VA_USER_SV48; \
> + if ((_addr) == 0 || \
> + (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPAT) && is_compat_task()) || \
> + ((_addr + len) > BIT(VA_BITS - 1))) \

How about replacing BIT(VA_BITS-1) to DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW to make the code
more general.

> else \
> - mmap_end = VA_USER_SV39; \
> + mmap_end = (_addr + len); \
> mmap_end; \
> })
> 
> @@ -39,14 +36,12 @@
> typeof(addr) _addr = (addr); \
> typeof(base) _base = (base); \
> unsigned long rnd_gap = DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW - (_base); \
> - if ((_addr) == 0 || (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPAT) && is_compat_task())) \
> + if ((_addr) == 0 || \
> +    (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPAT) && is_compat_task()) || \
> +    ((_addr + len) > BIT(VA_BITS - 1))) \

Same here.

> mmap_base = (_base); \
> - else if (((_addr) >= VA_USER_SV57) && (VA_BITS >= VA_BITS_SV57)) \
> - mmap_base = VA_USER_SV57 - rnd_gap; \
> - else if ((((_addr) >= VA_USER_SV48)) && (VA_BITS >= VA_BITS_SV48)) \
> - mmap_base = VA_USER_SV48 - rnd_gap; \
> else \
> - mmap_base = VA_USER_SV39 - rnd_gap; \
> + mmap_base = (_addr + len) - rnd_gap; \
> mmap_base; \
> })
> 
> 

What about not setting the upper bound as x86/arm/powerpc as [1] did?
In this case, user space can directly pass a constant hint address >
BIT(47) to get a mapping in sv57. If you want this, this code also allows
user-space to pass any address larger than TASK_SIZE. You should also
limit the mmap_base to (base) + TASK_SIZE - DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW.

I’m also aware of the rnd_gap if it is not 0, then we will not get
address mapped to VA_USER_SV39 - rnd_gap.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/tencent_2683632BEE438C6D4854E30BDF9CA0843606@xxxxxx/

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