From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A94C433E0 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2020 22:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [203.11.71.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB690206E3 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2020 22:36:15 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org CB690206E3 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.crashing.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from bilbo.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCRy55XhgzDrfg for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:36:13 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=permerror (SPF Permanent Error: Unknown mechanism found: ip:192.40.192.88/32) smtp.mailfrom=kernel.crashing.org (client-ip=76.164.61.194; helo=kernel.crashing.org; envelope-from=benh@kernel.crashing.org; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.crashing.org Received: from kernel.crashing.org (kernel.crashing.org [76.164.61.194]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BCRvl0p29zDqRr for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:34:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by kernel.crashing.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 06NMXDcm005863 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:33:16 -0500 Message-ID: <418d5f3d3f42bbc79c5cf30e18ec89edfe2dbd26.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] riscv: Move kernel mapping to vmalloc zone From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Alex Ghiti , Palmer Dabbelt Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:33:12 +1000 In-Reply-To: References: <7cb2285e-68ba-6827-5e61-e33a4b65ac03@ghiti.fr> <54af168083aee9dbda1b531227521a26b77ba2c8.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Anup Patel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Atish Patra , paulus@samba.org, zong.li@sifive.com, Paul Walmsley , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 01:21 -0400, Alex Ghiti wrote: > > works fine with huge pages, what is your problem there ? You rely on > > punching small-page size holes in there ? > > > > ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX prevents the use of a hugepage for the kernel > mapping in the direct mapping as it sets different permissions to > different part of the kernel (data, text..etc). Ah ok, that can be solved in a couple of ways... One is to use the linker script to ensure those sections are linked HUGE_PAGE_SIZE appart and moved appropriately by early boot code. One is to selectively degrade just those huge pages. I'm not familiar with the RiscV MMU (I should probably go have a look) but if it's a classic radix tree with huge pages at PUD/PMD level, then you could just degrade the one(s) that cross those boundaries. Cheers, Ben.