Messages in this thread | | | From | Alex Ghiti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] PUD/PGDIR entries for linear mapping | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:59:54 -0400 |
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Hi Atish,
Le 6/11/20 à 1:29 PM, Atish Patra a écrit : > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:51 PM Alex Ghiti<alex@ghiti.fr> wrote: >> Hi Atish, >> >> Le 6/10/20 à 2:32 PM, Atish Patra a écrit : >>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 8:36 AM Alexandre Ghiti<alex@ghiti.fr> wrote: >>>> 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. >>>> >>> I don't have in depth knowledge of how mm code works so this question >>> may be a completely >>> stupid one :). Just for my understanding, >>> As per my understanding, kernel will map those 2MB of memory but never use it. >>> How does the kernel ensure that it doesn't allocate any memory from those 2MB >>> memory if it is not marked as reserved? >> Yes, a 1GB hugepage will cover those 2MB: I rely on the previous boot >> stage to mark this region >> as reserved if there is something there (like opensbi). Otherwise, the >> kernel will indeed try to >> allocate memory from there :) >> > In that case, this patch mandates that the firmware region has to be > mark "reserved" > the device tree so that the Linux kernel doesn't try to allocate > memory from there. > OpenSBI is already doing it from v0.7. Thus, any user using latest > OpenSBI can leverage > this patch for a better TLB utilization.
Note that *currently* OpenSBI v0.7 still adds the "no-map" property which prevents such optimization.
> However, legacy previous boot stages(BBL) do not reserve this area via > DT which may > result in an unexpected crash. I am not sure how many developers still > use BBL though. > > Few general suggestions to tackle this problem: > 1. This mandatory requirement should be added to the booting document > so that any other > SBI implementation is also aware of it. > 2. You may have to move the patch1 to a separate config so that any > users of legacy boot stages > can disable this feature.
IMHO, the region occupied by runtime services should be marked as reserved in the device-tree. So it seems redundant to add this as a requirement, I would rather consider its absence as a bug.
Even if I understand that this might break some system, I don't like the idea of a new config to support old "buggy" bootloaders: when will we be able to remove it ? We'll never know when people will stop using those bootloaders, so it will stay here forever...Where can I find the boot document you are talking about ? Can we simply state here that this kernel version will not be compatible with those bootloaders (we'll draw an exhaustive list here) ?
Alex
>> Alex >> >> >>>> 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(-) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 2.20.1 >>>> >>>> >
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