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* [PATCH v7 0/4] riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping
@ 2023-03-10  9:45 Alexandre Ghiti
  2023-03-10  9:45 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] riscv: Get rid of riscv_pfn_base variable Alexandre Ghiti
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Alexandre Ghiti @ 2023-03-10  9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Paul Walmsley, Palmer Dabbelt,
	Albert Ou, Rob Herring, Frank Rowand, Mike Rapoport,
	Andrew Morton, Anup Patel, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel,
	linux-riscv, devicetree, linux-mm
  Cc: Alexandre Ghiti

This patchset intends to improve tlb utilization by using hugepages for
the linear mapping.

As reported by Anup in v6, when STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is enabled, we must
take care of isolating the kernel text and rodata so that they are not
mapped with a PUD mapping which would then assign wrong permissions to
the whole region: it is achieved by introducing a new memblock API.

Another patch makes use of this new API in arm64 which used some sort of
hack to solve this issue: it was built/boot tested successfully.

base-commit-tag: v6.3-rc1

v7:
- Fix Anup bug report by introducing memblock_isolate_memory which
  allows us to split the memblock mappings and then avoid to map the
  the PUD which contains the kernel as read only
- Add a patch to arm64 to use this newly introduced API

v6:
- quiet LLVM warning by casting phys_ram_base into an unsigned long

v5:
- Fix nommu builds by getting rid of riscv_pfn_base in patch 1, thanks
  Conor
- Add RB from Andrew

v4:
- Rebase on top of v6.2-rc3, as noted by Conor
- Add Acked-by Rob

v3:
- Change the comment about initrd_start VA conversion so that it fits
  ARM64 and RISCV64 (and others in the future if needed), as suggested
  by Rob

v2:
- Add a comment on why RISCV64 does not need to set initrd_start/end that
  early in the boot process, as asked by Rob

Alexandre Ghiti (4):
  riscv: Get rid of riscv_pfn_base variable
  mm: Introduce memblock_isolate_memory
  arm64: Make use of memblock_isolate_memory for the linear mapping
  riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping

 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c           |  4 ++--
 arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h | 19 +++++++++++++++--
 arch/riscv/mm/init.c          | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c      | 16 ++++++++++++++
 drivers/of/fdt.c              | 11 +++++-----
 include/linux/memblock.h      |  1 +
 mm/memblock.c                 | 22 +++++++++++++++++++-
 7 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

-- 
2.37.2



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2023-03-12  9:35   ` Mike Rapoport
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2023-03-10  9:45 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] arm64: Make use of memblock_isolate_memory for the linear mapping Alexandre Ghiti
2023-03-13  9:43   ` Andrew Jones
2023-03-13 10:01     ` Alexandre Ghiti
2023-03-10  9:45 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages " Alexandre Ghiti
2023-03-11 11:24 ` [PATCH v7 0/4] " Anup Patel

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