* Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [ > The patch is based on my boot-time switching patchset and would not apply > directly to current upstream, but I would appreciate early feedback. > ] > > This patch addresses shortcoming in current boot process on machines > that supports 5-level paging. > > If bootloader enables 64-bit mode with 4-level paging, we need to > switch over to 5-level paging. The switching requires disabling paging. > It works fine if kernel itself is loaded below 4G. > > If bootloader put the kernel above 4G (not sure if anybody does this), > we would loose control as soon as paging is disabled as code becomes > unreachable. > > This patch implements trampoline in lower memory to handle this > situation. > > Apart from trampoline itself we also need place to store top level page > table in lower memory as we don't have a way to load 64-bit value into > CR3 from 32-bit mode. We only really need 8-bytes there as we only use > the very first entry of the page table. but we allocate whole page > anyway. We cannot have the code in the same because, there's hazard that > a CPU would read page table speculatively and get confused seeing > garbage. > > We only need the memory for very short time, until main kernel image > setup its own page tables. > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- > arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++ > arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.h | 16 +++++++ > 3 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/pagetable.h Yeah, things like this is what I'd like to see, but could we please structure it a bit differently. Splitting it up more is very important, as 100+ lines difficult commits are difficult to debug after the fact. I'd suggest the following split-up: patch 1: introduce place_trampoline(), call it from the assembly - but don't do anything patch 2: move as much existing assembly code to C code in place_trampoline() as possible patch 3: modify remaining assembly code for dynamic 5-level pagetable support patch 4: modify place_trampoline() for dynamic 5-level pagetable support Also, if you can think of more boot code in that file to move to C reasonably, please do it, even if it's unrelated to 5-level paging at the moment. The more boot assembly code you manage to move to C, the better x86 maintainers will like your patch-set. We are easy to corrupt with such patches! :-) Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
