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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/13] nios2: define virtual address space for modules
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On 6/1/23 05:12, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
>
> nios2 uses kmalloc() to implement module_alloc() because CALL26/PCREL26
> cannot reach all of vmalloc address space.
>
> Define module space as 32MiB below the kernel base and switch nios2 to
> use vmalloc for module allocations.
>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 ++++-
> arch/nios2/kernel/module.c | 19 ++++---------------
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index 0f5c2564e9f5..0073b289c6a4 100644
> --- a/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -25,7 +25,10 @@
> #include <asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h>
>
> #define VMALLOC_START CONFIG_NIOS2_KERNEL_MMU_REGION_BASE
> -#define VMALLOC_END (CONFIG_NIOS2_KERNEL_REGION_BASE - 1)
> +#define VMALLOC_END (CONFIG_NIOS2_KERNEL_REGION_BASE - SZ_32M - 1)
> +
> +#define MODULES_VADDR (CONFIG_NIOS2_KERNEL_REGION_BASE - SZ_32M)
> +#define MODULES_END (CONFIG_NIOS2_KERNEL_REGION_BASE - 1)
>
> struct mm_struct;
>
> diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/module.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/module.c
> index 76e0a42d6e36..9c97b7513853 100644
> --- a/arch/nios2/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/module.c
> @@ -21,23 +21,12 @@
>
> #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>
> -/*
> - * Modules should NOT be allocated with kmalloc for (obvious) reasons.
> - * But we do it for now to avoid relocation issues. CALL26/PCREL26 cannot reach
> - * from 0x80000000 (vmalloc area) to 0xc00000000 (kernel) (kmalloc returns
> - * addresses in 0xc0000000)
> - */
> void *module_alloc(unsigned long size)
> {
> - if (size == 0)
> - return NULL;
> - return kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -}
> -
> -/* Free memory returned from module_alloc */
> -void module_memfree(void *module_region)
> -{
> - kfree(module_region);
> + return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, MODULES_VADDR, MODULES_END,
> + GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC,
> + VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, NUMA_NO_NODE,
> + __builtin_return_address(0));
> }
>
> int apply_relocate_add(Elf32_Shdr *sechdrs, const char *strtab,

Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>

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