From patchwork Sun Mar 14 09:10:26 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Alexandre Ghiti X-Patchwork-Id: 12137239 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-17.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45B9C433DB for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from desiato.infradead.org (desiato.infradead.org [90.155.92.199]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 82C7864EB6 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:13:02 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 82C7864EB6 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ghiti.fr Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-riscv-bounces+linux-riscv=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=desiato.20200630; h=Sender:Content-Transfer-Encoding :Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post:List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-Id:Date: Subject:Cc:To:From:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=7886NRbPKj4lyOiDna67nmrGKoNkJ8bM2Oyu31+DwX8=; b=mlury2l440y8vtQSHqC0+BaRx zMuBdezIFIuexoMN8zk1Gs3ACkT5gFaJfwci6W4yWxtG0NhB7Utp/6YLLZEguhUqDGu/VWLOQLpec Z/VpV71ELFOv1TaiZXAq9gqdKflh8WRI3arphqcdb0sJpyuxj+fQlZok8m8p6VedJEk+wXUpUQ9Z1 FXq2gM/knLYkmAW0SUYhdmOLWzNnvckee3CwziyjghZAfwdk5G/uZaExwuIOZ25/XFPFBE0b4DqGh xAtX3/vf3nVuConSbmakAw5Bd2WkVCwT8QLnjW8a11bJHkKy4zjeqn8jPWAZ7Q5BObLKiTpX8qK6T aW1TClVWg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=desiato.infradead.org) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lLMnp-00E3jm-G8; Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:12:49 +0000 Received: from relay13.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.233]) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lLMnl-00E3im-86 for linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:12:47 +0000 Received: from debian.home (lfbn-lyo-1-457-219.w2-7.abo.wanadoo.fr [2.7.49.219]) (Authenticated sender: alex@ghiti.fr) by relay13.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 990DC8000D; Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:12:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Alexandre Ghiti To: Jonathan Corbet , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Arnd Bergmann , Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Dmitry Vyukov , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Subject: [PATCH v3 2/3] Documentation: riscv: Add documentation that describes the VM layout Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2021 05:10:26 -0400 Message-Id: <20210314091027.21592-3-alex@ghiti.fr> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20210314091027.21592-1-alex@ghiti.fr> References: <20210314091027.21592-1-alex@ghiti.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210314_091245_588692_5B5CA4AB X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 12.61 ) X-BeenThere: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-riscv" Errors-To: linux-riscv-bounces+linux-riscv=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org This new document presents the RISC-V virtual memory layout and is based one the x86 one: it describes the different limits of the different regions of the virtual address space. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti --- Documentation/riscv/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/riscv/vm-layout.rst | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/riscv/vm-layout.rst diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/index.rst b/Documentation/riscv/index.rst index 6e6e39482502..ea915c196048 100644 --- a/Documentation/riscv/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/riscv/index.rst @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ RISC-V architecture :maxdepth: 1 boot-image-header + vm-layout pmu patch-acceptance diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/vm-layout.rst b/Documentation/riscv/vm-layout.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..329d32098af4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/riscv/vm-layout.rst @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +===================================== +Virtual Memory Layout on RISC-V Linux +===================================== + +:Author: Alexandre Ghiti +:Date: 12 February 2021 + +This document describes the virtual memory layout used by the RISC-V Linux +Kernel. + +RISC-V Linux Kernel 32bit +========================= + +RISC-V Linux Kernel SV32 +------------------------ + +TODO + +RISC-V Linux Kernel 64bit +========================= + +The RISC-V privileged architecture document states that the 64bit addresses +"must have bits 63–48 all equal to bit 47, or else a page-fault exception will +occur.": that splits the virtual address space into 2 halves separated by a very +big hole, the lower half is where the userspace resides, the upper half is where +the RISC-V Linux Kernel resides. + +RISC-V Linux Kernel SV39 +------------------------ + +:: + + ======================================================================================================================== + Start addr | Offset | End addr | Size | VM area description + ======================================================================================================================== + | | | | + 0000000000000000 | 0 | 0000003fffffffff | 256 GB | user-space virtual memory, different per mm + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________ + | | | | + 0000004000000000 | +256 GB | ffffffbfffffffff | ~16M TB | ... huge, almost 64 bits wide hole of non-canonical + | | | | virtual memory addresses up to the -256 GB + | | | | starting offset of kernel mappings. + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________ + | + | Kernel-space virtual memory, shared between all processes: + ____________________________________________________________|___________________________________________________________ + | | | | + ffffffc000000000 | -256 GB | ffffffc7ffffffff | 32 GB | kasan + ffffffcefee00000 | -196 GB | ffffffcefeffffff | 2 MB | fixmap + ffffffceff000000 | -196 GB | ffffffceffffffff | 16 MB | PCI io + ffffffcf00000000 | -196 GB | ffffffcfffffffff | 4 GB | vmemmap + ffffffd000000000 | -192 GB | ffffffdfffffffff | 64 GB | vmalloc/ioremap space + ffffffe000000000 | -128 GB | ffffffff7fffffff | 124 GB | direct mapping of all physical memory + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|____________________________________________________________ + | + | + ____________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________ + | | | | + ffffffff00000000 | -4 GB | ffffffff7fffffff | 2 GB | modules + ffffffff80000000 | -2 GB | ffffffffffffffff | 2 GB | kernel, BPF + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|____________________________________________________________