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Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> says: This patchset intends to improve tlb utilization by using hugepages for the linear mapping. As reported by Anup in v6, when STRICT_KERNEL_RWX is enabled, we must take care of isolating the kernel text and rodata so that they are not mapped with a PUD mapping which would then assign wrong permissions to the whole region: it is achieved the same way as arm64 by using the memblock nomap API which isolates those regions and re-merge them afterwards thus avoiding any issue with the system resources tree creation. arch/riscv/include/asm/page.h | 19 ++++++- arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- arch/riscv/mm/physaddr.c | 16 ++++++ drivers/of/fdt.c | 11 ++-- 4 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) * b4-shazam-merge: riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping riscv: Move the linear mapping creation in its own function riscv: Get rid of riscv_pfn_base variable Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324155421.271544-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.