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 9A19CC433E1 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:23:42 +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 17C7B207BB for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:23:41 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 17C7B207BB 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 4BBK5R5JbwzDqnR for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:23:39 +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 4BBK3c281gzDqfM for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:22:03 +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 06M2LIGX018560 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:21:25 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] riscv: Move kernel mapping to vmalloc zone From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Palmer Dabbelt Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:21:16 +1000 In-Reply-To: References: 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, alex@ghiti.fr, 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 Tue, 2020-07-21 at 16:48 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > > Why ? Branch distance limits ? You can't use trampolines ? > > Nothing fundamental, it's just that we don't have a large code model in the C > compiler. As a result all the global symbols are resolved as 32-bit > PC-relative accesses. We could fix this with a fast large code model, but then > the kernel would need to relax global symbol references in modules and we don't > even do that for the simple code models we have now. FWIW, some of the > proposed large code models are essentially just split-PLT/GOT and therefor > don't require relaxation, but at that point we're essentially PIC until we > have more that 2GiB of kernel text -- and even then, we keep all the > performance issues. My memory might be out of date but I *think* we do it on powerpc without going to a large code model, but just having the in-kernel linker insert trampolines. Cheers, Ben.