riscv: Start of DRAM should at least be aligned on PMD size for the direct mapping
authorAlexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Tue, 4 Jul 2023 12:18:37 +0000 (14:18 +0200)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Fri, 4 Aug 2023 17:28:04 +0000 (10:28 -0700)
So that we do not end up mapping the whole linear mapping using 4K
pages, which is slow at boot time, and also very likely at runtime.

So make sure we align the start of DRAM on a PMD boundary.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reported-by: Song Shuai <suagrfillet@gmail.com>
Fixes: 3335068f8721 ("riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping")
Tested-by: Song Shuai <suagrfillet@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230704121837.248976-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
arch/riscv/mm/init.c

index 9ce5047..ad845c3 100644 (file)
@@ -214,8 +214,13 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
        memblock_reserve(vmlinux_start, vmlinux_end - vmlinux_start);
 
        phys_ram_end = memblock_end_of_DRAM();
+
+       /*
+        * Make sure we align the start of the memory on a PMD boundary so that
+        * at worst, we map the linear mapping with PMD mappings.
+        */
        if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL))
-               phys_ram_base = memblock_start_of_DRAM();
+               phys_ram_base = memblock_start_of_DRAM() & PMD_MASK;
 
        /*
         * In 64-bit, any use of __va/__pa before this point is wrong as we