On 08/26/2014 13:45, David Daney wrote:
> On 08/25/2014 07:41 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
>> On 08/25/2014 20:36, David Daney wrote:
>>> On 08/25/2014 04:55 PM, Joshua Kinard wrote:
>>>> On 08/25/2014 13:16, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 05:11:37AM +0400, Max Filippov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> this series adds mapping color control to the generic kmap code, allowing
>>>>>> architectures with aliasing VIPT cache to use high memory. There's also
>>>>>> use example of this new interface by xtensa.
>>>>>
>>>>> I haven't actually ported this to MIPS but it certainly appears to be
>>>>> the right framework to get highmem aliases handled on MIPS, too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Though I still consider increasing PAGE_SIZE to 16k the preferable
>>>>> solution because it will entirly do away with cache aliases.
>>>>
>>>> Won't setting PAGE_SIZE to 16k break some existing userlands (o32)? I
>>>> use a
>>>> 4k PAGE_SIZE because the last few times I've tried 16k or 64k, init won't
>>>> load (SIGSEGVs or such, which panicks the kernel).
>>>>
>>>
>>> It isn't supposed to break things. Using "stock" toolchains should result
>>> in executables that will run with any page size.
>>>
>>> In the past, some geniuses came up with some linker (ld) patches that, in
>>> order to save a few KB of RAM, produced executables that ran only on 4K
>>> pages.
>>>
>>> There were some equally astute Debian emacs package maintainers that were
>>> carrying emacs patches into Debian that would not work on non-4K page size
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> That said, I think such thinking should be punished. The punishment should
>>> be to not have their software run when we select non-4K page sizes. The
>>> vast majority of prepackaged software runs just fine with a larger page
>>> size.
>>
>> Well, it does appear to mostly work now w/ 16k PAGE_SIZE. The Octane booted
>> into userland with just a couple of "illegal instruction" errors from 'rm'
>> and 'mdadm'. I wonder if that's tied to a hardcoded PAGE_SIZE somewhere.
>> Have to dig around and find something that reproduces the problem on demand.
>>
>
> What does the output of "readelf -lW" look like for the failing programs?
> If the "Offset" and "VirtAddr" constraints for the LOAD Program Headers are
> not possible to achieve with the selected PAGE_SIZE, you will see problems.
> A "correct" toolchain will generate binaries that work with any PAGE_SIZE up
> to 64K.
Well, I recently rebuilt shash, so that might've changed things. But,
running readelf -lW on shash core dumped readelf itself on the first
invocation (with a SIGBUS instead of SIGILL). So I instead ran readelf -lW
on itself, which hasn't been recently rebuilt:
# readelf -lW /usr/bin/shash
Bus error (core dumped)
# readelf -lW /usr/bin/readelf
Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file)
Entry point 0x402590
There are 11 program headers, starting at offset 52
Program Headers:
Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align
PHDR 0x000034 0x00400034 0x00400034 0x00160 0x00160 R E 0x4
INTERP 0x000194 0x00400194 0x00400194 0x0000d 0x0000d R 0x1
[Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld.so.1]
REGINFO 0x0001c4 0x004001c4 0x004001c4 0x00018 0x00018 R 0x4
LOAD 0x000000 0x00400000 0x00400000 0x72338 0x72338 R E 0x10000
LOAD 0x0728c8 0x004828c8 0x004828c8 0x01834 0x03d88 RW 0x10000
DYNAMIC 0x0001dc 0x004001dc 0x004001dc 0x000e0 0x000e0 RWE 0x4
NOTE 0x0001a4 0x004001a4 0x004001a4 0x00020 0x00020 R 0x4
GNU_EH_FRAME 0x0722c0 0x004722c0 0x004722c0 0x00024 0x00024 R 0x4
GNU_RELRO 0x0728c8 0x004828c8 0x004828c8 0x00738 0x00738 R 0x1
PAX_FLAGS 0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 0x4
NULL 0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 0x4
Section to Segment mapping:
Segment Sections...
00
01 .interp
02 .reginfo
03 .interp .note.ABI-tag .reginfo .dynamic .hash .dynsym .dynstr
.gnu.version .gnu.version_r .init .text .MIPS.stubs .fini .rodata
.eh_frame_hdr .eh_frame
04 .ctors .dtors .jcr .data.rel.ro .data .rld_map .got .sdata .sbss .bss
05 .dynamic
06 .note.ABI-tag
07 .eh_frame_hdr
08 .ctors .dtors .jcr .data.rel.ro
09
10
--
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
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