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[V5,1/3] riscv: Use global mappings for kernel pages

Message ID 1622393366-46079-2-git-send-email-guoren@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series riscv: Fixup asid_allocator remaining issues | expand

Commit Message

Guo Ren May 30, 2021, 4:49 p.m. UTC 
From: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>

We map kernel pages into all addresses space, so they can be marked as
global. This allows hardware to avoid flushing the kernel mappings when
moving between address spaces.

Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 9469f46..346a3c6 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ 
 				| _PAGE_WRITE \
 				| _PAGE_PRESENT \
 				| _PAGE_ACCESSED \
-				| _PAGE_DIRTY)
+				| _PAGE_DIRTY \
+				| _PAGE_GLOBAL)
 
 #define PAGE_KERNEL		__pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_READ	__pgprot(_PAGE_KERNEL & ~_PAGE_WRITE)