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Subject[PATCH 0/2] PUD/PGDIR entries for linear mapping
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This small patchset intends to use PUD/PGDIR entries for linear mapping
in order to better utilize TLB.

At the moment, only PMD entries can be used since on common platforms
(qemu/unleashed), the kernel is loaded at DRAM + 2MB which dealigns virtual
and physical addresses and then prevents the use of PUD/PGDIR entries.
So the kernel must be able to get those 2MB for PAGE_OFFSET to map the
beginning of the DRAM: this is achieved in patch 1.

But furthermore, at the moment, the firmware (opensbi) explicitly asks the
kernel not to map the region it occupies, which is on those common
platforms at the very beginning of the DRAM and then it also dealigns
virtual and physical addresses. I proposed a patch here:

https://github.com/riscv/opensbi/pull/167

that removes this 'constraint' but *not* all the time as it offers some
kind of protection in case PMP is not available. So sometimes, we may
have a part of the memory below the kernel that is removed creating a
misalignment between virtual and physical addresses. So for performance
reasons, we must at least make sure that PMD entries can be used: that
is guaranteed by patch 1 too.

Finally the second patch simply improves best_map_size so that whenever
possible, PUD/PGDIR entries are used.

Below is the kernel page table without this patch on a 6G platform:

---[ Linear mapping ]---
0xffffc00000000000-0xffffc00176e00000 0x0000000080200000 5998M PMD D A . . . W R V

And with this patchset + opensbi patch:

---[ Linear mapping ]---
0xffffc00000000000-0xffffc00140000000 0x0000000080000000 5G PUD D A . . . W R V
0xffffc00140000000-0xffffc00177000000 0x00000001c0000000 880M PMD D A . . . W R V

Alexandre Ghiti (2):
riscv: Get memory below load_pa while ensuring linear mapping is PMD
aligned
riscv: Use PUD/PGDIR entries for linear mapping when possible

arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h | 8 ++++
arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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2.20.1

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