On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 01:21 -0400, Alex Ghiti wrote: > > works fine with huge pages, what is your problem there ? You rely on > > punching small-page size holes in there ? > > > > ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX prevents the use of a hugepage for the kernel > mapping in the direct mapping as it sets different permissions to > different part of the kernel (data, text..etc). Ah ok, that can be solved in a couple of ways... One is to use the linker script to ensure those sections are linked HUGE_PAGE_SIZE appart and moved appropriately by early boot code. One is to selectively degrade just those huge pages. I'm not familiar with the RiscV MMU (I should probably go have a look) but if it's a classic radix tree with huge pages at PUD/PMD level, then you could just degrade the one(s) that cross those boundaries. Cheers, Ben.
