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Svpbmt (the S should be capitalized) is the
"Supervisor-mode: page-based memory types" extension
that specifies attributes for cacheability, idempotency
and ordering.
The relevant settings are done in special bits in PTEs:
Here is the svpbmt PTE format:
| 63 | 62-61 | 60-8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0
N MT RSW D A G U X W R V
^
Of the Reserved bits [63:54] in a leaf PTE, the high bit is already
allocated (as the N bit), so bits [62:61] are used as the MT (aka
MemType) field. This field specifies one of three memory types that
are close equivalents (or equivalent in effect) to the three main x86
and ARMv8 memory types - as shown in the following table.
RISC-V
Encoding &
MemType RISC-V Description
---------- ------------------------------------------------
00 - PMA Normal Cacheable, No change to implied PMA memory type
01 - NC Non-cacheable, idempotent, weakly-ordered Main Memory
10 - IO Non-cacheable, non-idempotent, strongly-ordered I/O memory
11 - Rsvd Reserved for future standard use
As the extension will not be present on all implementations,
implement a method to handle cpufeatures via alternatives
to not incur runtime penalties on cpu variants not supporting
specific extensions and patch relevant code parts at runtime.
Co-developed-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <wefu@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Shaohua <liush@allwinnertech.com>
Co-developed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
[moved to use the alternatives mechanism]
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511192921.2223629-10-heiko@sntech.de
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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README
Linux kernel
============
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
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
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.