On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:06 PM Atish Patra wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 1:23 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > I just noticed that rv32 allows 2GB of lowmem rather than just the usual
> > 768MB or 1GB, at the expense of addressable user memory. This seems
> > like an unusual choice, but I a
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
Le 7/21/20 à 7:36 PM, Palmer Dabbelt a écrit :
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:11:02 PDT (-0700), b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 14:36 -0400, Alex Ghiti wrote:
> > I guess I don't understand why this is necessary at all.
> > Specifically: why
> > can't we just relocate the kern
Hi Palmer,
Le 7/21/20 à 3:05 PM, Palmer Dabbelt a écrit :
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:36:10 PDT (-0700), a...@ghiti.fr wrote:
Let's try to make progress here: I add linux-mm in CC to get feedback on
this patch as it blocks sv48 support too.
Sorry for being slow here. I haven't replied because I h
Hi Benjamin,
Le 7/21/20 à 7:11 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit :
On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 14:36 -0400, Alex Ghiti wrote:
I guess I don't understand why this is necessary at all.
Specifically: why
can't we just relocate the kernel within the linear map? That would
let the
bootloader put the ker
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 1:23 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:52 PM Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:43:50 PDT (-0700), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:06 PM Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > > The eventual goal is to have a split of 3840MB for e
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:52 PM Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:43:50 PDT (-0700), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:06 PM Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > The eventual goal is to have a split of 3840MB for either user or linear map
> > plus and 256MB for vmalloc, includi
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:43:50 PDT (-0700), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:06 PM Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:36:10 PDT (-0700), a...@ghiti.fr wrote:
> Let's try to make progress here: I add linux-mm in CC to get feedback on
> this patch as it blocks sv48 support
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:06 PM Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:36:10 PDT (-0700), a...@ghiti.fr wrote:
> > Let's try to make progress here: I add linux-mm in CC to get feedback on
> > this patch as it blocks sv48 support too.
>
> Sorry for being slow here. I haven't replied beca
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:50:42 PDT (-0700), m...@ellerman.id.au wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
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
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> 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 resolv
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.
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:12:58 PDT (-0700), b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 12:05 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
* We waste vmalloc space on 32-bit systems, where there isn't a lot of it.
* On 64-bit systems the VA space around the kernel is precious because it's the
only pl
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:11:02 PDT (-0700), b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 14:36 -0400, Alex Ghiti wrote:
> > I guess I don't understand why this is necessary at all.
> > Specifically: why
> > can't we just relocate the kernel within the linear map? That would
> > let the
>
On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 12:05 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
> * We waste vmalloc space on 32-bit systems, where there isn't a lot of it.
> * On 64-bit systems the VA space around the kernel is precious because it's
> the
> only place we can place text (modules, BPF, whatever).
Why ? Branch dis
On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 14:36 -0400, Alex Ghiti wrote:
> > > I guess I don't understand why this is necessary at all.
> > > Specifically: why
> > > can't we just relocate the kernel within the linear map? That would
> > > let the
> > > bootloader put the kernel wherever it wants, modulo the physi
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:36:10 PDT (-0700), a...@ghiti.fr wrote:
Let's try to make progress here: I add linux-mm in CC to get feedback on
this patch as it blocks sv48 support too.
Sorry for being slow here. I haven't replied because I hadn't really fleshed
out the design yet, but just so everyon
Let's try to make progress here: I add linux-mm in CC to get feedback on
this patch as it blocks sv48 support too.
Alex
Le 7/9/20 à 7:11 AM, Alex Ghiti a écrit :
Hi Palmer,
Le 7/9/20 à 1:05 AM, Palmer Dabbelt a écrit :
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:59:46 PDT (-0700), a...@ghiti.fr wrote:
This is a
Hi Palmer,
Le 7/9/20 à 1:05 AM, Palmer Dabbelt a écrit :
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:59:46 PDT (-0700), a...@ghiti.fr wrote:
This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel.
The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address and used to be loaded
physically at the beginning of the main memory.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 1:05 PM Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:59:46 PDT (-0700), a...@ghiti.fr wrote:
> > This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel.
> >
> > The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address and used to be loaded
> > physically at the beginning of the m
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:59:46 PDT (-0700), a...@ghiti.fr wrote:
This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel.
The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address and used to be loaded
physically at the beginning of the main memory. Therefore, we could use
the linear mapping for the kernel m
Hi Atish,
Le 6/11/20 à 5:34 PM, Atish Patra a écrit :
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 1:01 AM Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel.
The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address and used to be loaded
physically at the beginning of the main memory. Therefore,
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 1:01 AM Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
>
> This is a preparatory patch for relocatable kernel.
>
> The kernel used to be linked at PAGE_OFFSET address and used to be loaded
> physically at the beginning of the main memory. Therefore, we could use
> the linear mapping for the kernel
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