From: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
To: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Yangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] riscv: mm: Extend mappable memory up to hint address
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:06:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240130-use_mmap_hint_address-v3-0-8a655cfa8bcb@rivosinc.com> (raw)
On riscv, mmap currently returns an address from the largest address
space that can fit entirely inside of the hint address. This makes it
such that the hint address is almost never returned. This patch raises
the mappable area up to and including the hint address. This allows mmap
to often return the hint address, which allows a performance improvement
over searching for a valid address as well as making the behavior more
similar to other architectures.
Note that a previous patch introduced stronger semantics compared to
other architectures for riscv mmap. On riscv, mmap will not use bits in
the upper bits of the virtual address depending on the hint address. On
other architectures, a random address is returned in the address space
requested. On all architectures the hint address will be returned if it
is available. This allows riscv applications to configure how many bits
in the virtual address should be left empty. This has the two benefits
of being able to request address spaces that are smaller than the
default and doesn't require the application to know the page table
layout of riscv.
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Add back forgotten semi-colon
- Fix test cases
- Add support for rv32
- Change cover letter name so it's not the same as patch 1
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240130-use_mmap_hint_address-v2-0-f34ebfd33053@rivosinc.com
Changes in v2:
- Add back forgotten "mmap_end = STACK_TOP_MAX"
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240129-use_mmap_hint_address-v1-0-4c74da813ba1@rivosinc.com
---
Charlie Jenkins (3):
riscv: mm: Use hint address in mmap if available
selftests: riscv: Generalize mm selftests
docs: riscv: Define behavior of mmap
Documentation/arch/riscv/vm-layout.rst | 16 ++--
arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 27 +++---
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/mmap_bottomup.c | 23 +----
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/mmap_default.c | 23 +----
tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/mmap_test.h | 107 ++++++++++++++---------
5 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 556e2d17cae620d549c5474b1ece053430cd50bc
change-id: 20240119-use_mmap_hint_address-f9f4b1b6f5f1
--
- Charlie
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next reply other threads:[~2024-01-31 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-31 1:06 Charlie Jenkins [this message]
2024-01-31 1:07 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] riscv: mm: Use hint address in mmap if available Charlie Jenkins
2024-01-31 14:41 ` Yangyu Chen
2024-01-31 15:59 ` Yangyu Chen
2024-02-02 2:28 ` Charlie Jenkins
2024-03-22 14:06 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2024-01-31 1:07 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] selftests: riscv: Generalize mm selftests Charlie Jenkins
2024-01-31 1:07 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] docs: riscv: Define behavior of mmap Charlie Jenkins
2024-03-20 20:50 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] riscv: mm: Extend mappable memory up to hint address patchwork-bot+linux-riscv
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