lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2021]   [Apr]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH] riscv: Only extend kernel reservation if mapped read-only
From
Date
Hi Geert,

Le 4/28/21 à 9:45 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit :
> When the kernel mapping was moved outside of the linear mapping, the
> kernel memory reservation was increased, to take into account mapping
> granularity. However, this is done unconditionally, regardless of
> whether the kernel memory is mapped read-only or not.
>
> If this extension is not needed, up to 2 MiB may be lost, which has a
> big impact on e.g. Canaan K210 (64-bit nommu) platforms with only 8 MiB
> of RAM.
>
> Reclaim the lost memory by only extending the reserved region when
> needed, i.e. matching the conditional logic around the call to
> protect_kernel_linear_mapping_text_rodata().
>
> Fixes: 2bfc6cd81bd17e43 ("riscv: Move kernel mapping outside of linear mapping")
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> ---
> Only tested on K210 (SiPeed MAIX BiT):
>
> -Memory: 5852K/8192K available (1344K kernel code, 147K rwdata, 272K rodata, 106K init, 72K bss, 2340K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
> +Memory: 5948K/8192K available (1344K kernel code, 147K rwdata, 272K rodata, 106K init, 72K bss, 2244K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
>
> Yes, I was lucky, as only 96 KiB was lost ;-)
> ---
> arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> index 788eb222deacf994..3439783f26abc488 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
> @@ -136,11 +136,17 @@ void __init setup_bootmem(void)
>
> /*
> * Reserve from the start of the kernel to the end of the kernel
> - * and make sure we align the reservation on PMD_SIZE since we will
> + */
> +#if defined(CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX) && defined(CONFIG_64BIT) && \
> + defined(CONFIG_MMU) && !defined(CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL)

ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX depends on MMU and !XIP_KERNEL so I think you
can get rid of those checks.

> + /*
> + * Make sure we align the reservation on PMD_SIZE since we will
> * map the kernel in the linear mapping as read-only: we do not want
> * any allocation to happen between _end and the next pmd aligned page.
> */
> - memblock_reserve(vmlinux_start, (vmlinux_end - vmlinux_start + PMD_SIZE - 1) & PMD_MASK);
> + vmlinux_end = (vmlinux_end + PMD_SIZE - 1) & PMD_MASK;
> +#endif
> + memblock_reserve(vmlinux_start, vmlinux_end - vmlinux_start);
>
> /*
> * memblock allocator is not aware of the fact that last 4K bytes of
>

Thanks for fixing this,

Alex



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2021-04-29 16:11    [W:0.035 / U:1.148 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site