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Merge tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextgrafted
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- Add dedicated kmem_cache for typical/small skb->head, avoid having
to access struct page at kfree time, and improve memory use.
- Introduce sysctl to set default RPS configuration for new netdevs.
- Define Netlink protocol specification format which can be used to
describe messages used by each family and auto-generate parsers.
Add tools for generating kernel data structures and uAPI headers.
- Expose all net/core sysctls inside netns.
- Remove 4s sleep in netpoll if carrier is instantly detected on
boot.
- Add configurable limit of MDB entries per port, and port-vlan.
- Continue populating drop reasons throughout the stack.
- Retire a handful of legacy Qdiscs and classifiers.
Protocols:
- Support IPv4 big TCP (TSO frames larger than 64kB).
- Add IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE socket option, to control local port range
on socket by socket basis.
- Track and report in procfs number of MPTCP sockets used.
- Support mixing IPv4 and IPv6 flows in the in-kernel MPTCP path
manager.
- IPv6: don't check net.ipv6.route.max_size and rely on garbage
collection to free memory (similarly to IPv4).
- Support Penultimate Segment Pop (PSP) flavor in SRv6 (RFC8986).
- ICMP: add per-rate limit counters.
- Add support for user scanning requests in ieee802154.
- Remove static WEP support.
- Support minimal Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) rate
reporting.
- WiFi 7 EHT channel puncturing support (client & AP).
BPF:
- Add a rbtree data structure following the "next-gen data structure"
precedent set by recently added linked list, that is, by using
kfunc + kptr instead of adding a new BPF map type.
- Expose XDP hints via kfuncs with initial support for RX hash and
timestamp metadata.
- Add BPF_F_NO_TUNNEL_KEY extension to bpf_skb_set_tunnel_key to
better support decap on GRE tunnel devices not operating in collect
metadata.
- Improve x86 JIT's codegen for PROBE_MEM runtime error checks.
- Remove the need for trace_printk_lock for bpf_trace_printk and
bpf_trace_vprintk helpers.
- Extend libbpf's bpf_tracing.h support for tracing arguments of
kprobes/uprobes and syscall as a special case.
- Significantly reduce the search time for module symbols by
livepatch and BPF.
- Enable cpumasks to be used as kptrs, which is useful for tracing
programs tracking which tasks end up running on which CPUs in
different time intervals.
- Add support for BPF trampoline on s390x and riscv64.
- Add capability to export the XDP features supported by the NIC.
- Add __bpf_kfunc tag for marking kernel functions as kfuncs.
- Add cgroup.memory=nobpf kernel parameter option to disable BPF
memory accounting for container environments.
Netfilter:
- Remove the CLUSTERIP target. It has been marked as obsolete for
years, and we still have WARN splats wrt races of the out-of-band
/proc interface installed by this target.
- Add 'destroy' commands to nf_tables. They are identical to the
existing 'delete' commands, but do not return an error if the
referenced object (set, chain, rule...) did not exist.
Driver API:
- Improve cpumask_local_spread() locality to help NICs set the right
IRQ affinity on AMD platforms.
- Separate C22 and C45 MDIO bus transactions more clearly.
- Introduce new DCB table to control DSCP rewrite on egress.
- Support configuration of Physical Layer Collision Avoidance (PLCA)
Reconciliation Sublayer (RS) (802.3cg-2019). Modern version of
shared medium Ethernet.
- Support for MAC Merge layer (IEEE 802.3-2018 clause 99). Allowing
preemption of low priority frames by high priority frames.
- Add support for controlling MACSec offload using netlink SET.
- Rework devlink instance refcounts to allow registration and
de-registration under the instance lock. Split the code into
multiple files, drop some of the unnecessarily granular locks and
factor out common parts of netlink operation handling.
- Add TX frame aggregation parameters (for USB drivers).
- Add a new attr TCA_EXT_WARN_MSG to report TC (offload) warning
messages with notifications for debug.
- Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct.
- Add support for per action HW stats in TC.
- Support hardware miss to TC action (continue processing in SW from
a specific point in the action chain).
- Warn if old Wireless Extension user space interface is used with
modern cfg80211/mac80211 drivers. Do not support Wireless
Extensions for Wi-Fi 7 devices at all. Everyone should switch to
using nl80211 interface instead.
- Improve the CAN bit timing configuration. Use extack to return
error messages directly to user space, update the SJW handling,
including the definition of a new default value that will benefit
CAN-FD controllers, by increasing their oscillator tolerance.
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- nVidia BlueField-3 support (control traffic driver)
- Ethernet support for imx93 SoCs
- Motorcomm yt8531 gigabit Ethernet PHY
- onsemi NCN26000 10BASE-T1S PHY (with support for PLCA)
- Microchip LAN8841 PHY (incl. cable diagnostics and PTP)
- Amlogic gxl MDIO mux
- WiFi:
- RealTek RTL8188EU (rtl8xxxu)
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices (ath12k)
- CAN:
- Renesas R-Car V4H
Drivers:
- Bluetooth:
- Set Per Platform Antenna Gain (PPAG) for Intel controllers.
- Ethernet NICs:
- Intel (1G, igc):
- support TSN / Qbv / packet scheduling features of i226 model
- Intel (100G, ice):
- use GNSS subsystem instead of TTY
- multi-buffer XDP support
- extend support for GPIO pins to E823 devices
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- update the shared buffer configuration on PFC commands
- implement PTP adjphase function for HW offset control
- TC support for Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload
- more efficient crypto key management method
- multi-port eswitch support
- Netronome/Corigine:
- add DCB IEEE support
- support IPsec offloading for NFP3800
- Freescale/NXP (enetc):
- support XDP_REDIRECT for XDP non-linear buffers
- improve reconfig, avoid link flap and waiting for idle
- support MAC Merge layer
- Other NICs:
- sfc/ef100: add basic devlink support for ef100
- ionic: rx_push mode operation (writing descriptors via MMIO)
- bnxt: use the auxiliary bus abstraction for RDMA
- r8169: disable ASPM and reset bus in case of tx timeout
- cpsw: support QSGMII mode for J721e CPSW9G
- cpts: support pulse-per-second output
- ngbe: add an mdio bus driver
- usbnet: optimize usbnet_bh() by avoiding unnecessary queuing
- r8152: handle devices with FW with NCM support
- amd-xgbe: support 10Mbps, 2.5GbE speeds and rx-adaptation
- virtio-net: support multi buffer XDP
- virtio/vsock: replace virtio_vsock_pkt with sk_buff
- tsnep: XDP support
- Ethernet high-speed switches:
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlxsw):
- add support for latency TLV (in FW control messages)
- Microchip (sparx5):
- separate explicit and implicit traffic forwarding rules, make
the implicit rules always active
- add support for egress DSCP rewrite
- IS0 VCAP support (Ingress Classification)
- IS2 VCAP filters (protos, L3 addrs, L4 ports, flags, ToS
etc.)
- ES2 VCAP support (Egress Access Control)
- support for Per-Stream Filtering and Policing (802.1Q,
8.6.5.1)
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
- add MAB (port auth) offload support
- enable PTP receive for mv88e6390
- NXP (ocelot):
- support MAC Merge layer
- support for the the vsc7512 internal copper phys
- Microchip:
- lan9303: convert to PHYLINK
- lan966x: support TC flower filter statistics
- lan937x: PTP support for KSZ9563/KSZ8563 and LAN937x
- lan937x: support Credit Based Shaper configuration
- ksz9477: support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- other:
- qca8k: convert to regmap read/write API, use bulk operations
- rswitch: Improve TX timestamp accuracy
- Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
- EHT (Wi-Fi 7) rate reporting
- STEP equalizer support: transfer some STEP (connection to radio
on platforms with integrated wifi) related parameters from the
BIOS to the firmware.
- Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
- IPQ5018 support
- Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) responder role support
- channel 177 support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
- per-PHY LED support
- mt7996: EHT (Wi-Fi 7) support
- Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) reset support
- switch to using page pool allocator
- RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
- support new version of Bluetooth co-existance
- Mobile:
- rmnet: support TX aggregation"
* tag 'net-next-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1872 commits)
page_pool: add a comment explaining the fragment counter usage
net: ethtool: fix __ethtool_dev_mm_supported() implementation
ethtool: pse-pd: Fix double word in comments
xsk: add linux/vmalloc.h to xsk.c
sefltests: netdevsim: wait for devlink instance after netns removal
selftest: fib_tests: Always cleanup before exit
net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware
net/mlx5e: TC, Set CT miss to the specific ct action instance
net/mlx5e: Rename CHAIN_TO_REG to MAPPED_OBJ_TO_REG
net/mlx5: Refactor tc miss handling to a single function
net/mlx5: Kconfig: Make tc offload depend on tc skb extension
net/sched: flower: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: flower: Move filter handle initialization earlier
net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action
net/sched: Rename user cookie and act cookie
sfc: fix builds without CONFIG_RTC_LIB
sfc: clean up some inconsistent indentings
net/mlx4_en: Introduce flexible array to silence overflow warning
net: lan966x: Fix possible deadlock inside PTP
net/ulp: Remove redundant ->clone() test in inet_clone_ulp().
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diff --git a/Documentation/loongarch/introduction.rst b/Documentation/loongarch/introduction.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..49135d451 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/loongarch/introduction.rst @@ -0,0 +1,390 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +========================= +Introduction to LoongArch +========================= + +LoongArch is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V. There are +currently 3 variants: a reduced 32-bit version (LA32R), a standard 32-bit +version (LA32S) and a 64-bit version (LA64). There are 4 privilege levels +(PLVs) defined in LoongArch: PLV0~PLV3, from high to low. Kernel runs at PLV0 +while applications run at PLV3. This document introduces the registers, basic +instruction set, virtual memory and some other topics of LoongArch. + +Registers +========= + +LoongArch registers include general purpose registers (GPRs), floating point +registers (FPRs), vector registers (VRs) and control status registers (CSRs) +used in privileged mode (PLV0). + +GPRs +---- + +LoongArch has 32 GPRs ( ``$r0`` ~ ``$r31`` ); each one is 32-bit wide in LA32 +and 64-bit wide in LA64. ``$r0`` is hard-wired to zero, and the other registers +are not architecturally special. (Except ``$r1``, which is hard-wired as the +link register of the BL instruction.) + +The kernel uses a variant of the LoongArch register convention, as described in +the LoongArch ELF psABI spec, in :ref:`References <loongarch-references>`: + +================= =============== =================== ============ +Name Alias Usage Preserved + across calls +================= =============== =================== ============ +``$r0`` ``$zero`` Constant zero Unused +``$r1`` ``$ra`` Return address No +``$r2`` ``$tp`` TLS/Thread pointer Unused +``$r3`` ``$sp`` Stack pointer Yes +``$r4``-``$r11`` ``$a0``-``$a7`` Argument registers No +``$r4``-``$r5`` ``$v0``-``$v1`` Return value No +``$r12``-``$r20`` ``$t0``-``$t8`` Temp registers No +``$r21`` ``$u0`` Percpu base address Unused +``$r22`` ``$fp`` Frame pointer Yes +``$r23``-``$r31`` ``$s0``-``$s8`` Static registers Yes +================= =============== =================== ============ + +.. Note:: + The register ``$r21`` is reserved in the ELF psABI, but used by the Linux + kernel for storing the percpu base address. It normally has no ABI name, + but is called ``$u0`` in the kernel. You may also see ``$v0`` or ``$v1`` + in some old code,however they are deprecated aliases of ``$a0`` and ``$a1`` + respectively. + +FPRs +---- + +LoongArch has 32 FPRs ( ``$f0`` ~ ``$f31`` ) when FPU is present. Each one is +64-bit wide on the LA64 cores. + +The floating-point register convention is the same as described in the +LoongArch ELF psABI spec: + +================= ================== =================== ============ +Name Alias Usage Preserved + across calls +================= ================== =================== ============ +``$f0``-``$f7`` ``$fa0``-``$fa7`` Argument registers No +``$f0``-``$f1`` ``$fv0``-``$fv1`` Return value No +``$f8``-``$f23`` ``$ft0``-``$ft15`` Temp registers No +``$f24``-``$f31`` ``$fs0``-``$fs7`` Static registers Yes +================= ================== =================== ============ + +.. Note:: + You may see ``$fv0`` or ``$fv1`` in some old code, however they are + deprecated aliases of ``$fa0`` and ``$fa1`` respectively. + +VRs +---- + +There are currently 2 vector extensions to LoongArch: + +- LSX (Loongson SIMD eXtension) with 128-bit vectors, +- LASX (Loongson Advanced SIMD eXtension) with 256-bit vectors. + +LSX brings ``$v0`` ~ ``$v31`` while LASX brings ``$x0`` ~ ``$x31`` as the vector +registers. + +The VRs overlap with FPRs: for example, on a core implementing LSX and LASX, +the lower 128 bits of ``$x0`` is shared with ``$v0``, and the lower 64 bits of +``$v0`` is shared with ``$f0``; same with all other VRs. + +CSRs +---- + +CSRs can only be accessed from privileged mode (PLV0): + +================= ===================================== ============== +Address Full Name Abbrev Name +================= ===================================== ============== +0x0 Current Mode Information CRMD +0x1 Pre-exception Mode Information PRMD +0x2 Extension Unit Enable EUEN +0x3 Miscellaneous Control MISC +0x4 Exception Configuration ECFG +0x5 Exception Status ESTAT +0x6 Exception Return Address ERA +0x7 Bad (Faulting) Virtual Address BADV +0x8 Bad (Faulting) Instruction Word BADI +0xC Exception Entrypoint Address EENTRY +0x10 TLB Index TLBIDX +0x11 TLB Entry High-order Bits TLBEHI +0x12 TLB Entry Low-order Bits 0 TLBELO0 +0x13 TLB Entry Low-order Bits 1 TLBELO1 +0x18 Address Space Identifier ASID +0x19 Page Global Directory Address for PGDL + Lower-half Address Space +0x1A Page Global Directory Address for PGDH + Higher-half Address Space +0x1B Page Global Directory Address PGD +0x1C Page Walk Control for Lower- PWCL + half Address Space +0x1D Page Walk Control for Higher- PWCH + half Address Space +0x1E STLB Page Size STLBPS +0x1F Reduced Virtual Address Configuration RVACFG +0x20 CPU Identifier CPUID +0x21 Privileged Resource Configuration 1 PRCFG1 +0x22 Privileged Resource Configuration 2 PRCFG2 +0x23 Privileged Resource Configuration 3 PRCFG3 +0x30+n (0≤n≤15) Saved Data register SAVEn +0x40 Timer Identifier TID +0x41 Timer Configuration TCFG +0x42 Timer Value TVAL +0x43 Compensation of Timer Count CNTC +0x44 Timer Interrupt Clearing TICLR +0x60 LLBit Control LLBCTL +0x80 Implementation-specific Control 1 IMPCTL1 +0x81 Implementation-specific Control 2 IMPCTL2 +0x88 TLB Refill Exception Entrypoint TLBRENTRY + Address +0x89 TLB Refill Exception BAD (Faulting) TLBRBADV + Virtual Address +0x8A TLB Refill Exception Return Address TLBRERA +0x8B TLB Refill Exception Saved Data TLBRSAVE + Register +0x8C TLB Refill Exception Entry Low-order TLBRELO0 + Bits 0 +0x8D TLB Refill Exception Entry Low-order TLBRELO1 + Bits 1 +0x8E TLB Refill Exception Entry High-order TLBEHI + Bits +0x8F TLB Refill Exception Pre-exception TLBRPRMD + Mode Information +0x90 Machine Error Control MERRCTL +0x91 Machine Error Information 1 MERRINFO1 +0x92 Machine Error Information 2 MERRINFO2 +0x93 Machine Error Exception Entrypoint MERRENTRY + Address +0x94 Machine Error Exception Return MERRERA + Address +0x95 Machine Error Exception Saved Data MERRSAVE + Register +0x98 Cache TAGs CTAG +0x180+n (0≤n≤3) Direct Mapping Configuration Window n DMWn +0x200+2n (0≤n≤31) Performance Monitor Configuration n PMCFGn +0x201+2n (0≤n≤31) Performance Monitor Overall Counter n PMCNTn +0x300 Memory Load/Store WatchPoint MWPC + Overall Control +0x301 Memory Load/Store WatchPoint MWPS + Overall Status +0x310+8n (0≤n≤7) Memory Load/Store WatchPoint n MWPnCFG1 + Configuration 1 +0x311+8n (0≤n≤7) Memory Load/Store WatchPoint n MWPnCFG2 + Configuration 2 +0x312+8n (0≤n≤7) Memory Load/Store WatchPoint n MWPnCFG3 + Configuration 3 +0x313+8n (0≤n≤7) Memory Load/Store WatchPoint n MWPnCFG4 + Configuration 4 +0x380 Instruction Fetch WatchPoint FWPC + Overall Control +0x381 Instruction Fetch WatchPoint FWPS + Overall Status +0x390+8n (0≤n≤7) Instruction Fetch WatchPoint n FWPnCFG1 + Configuration 1 +0x391+8n (0≤n≤7) Instruction Fetch WatchPoint n FWPnCFG2 + Configuration 2 +0x392+8n (0≤n≤7) Instruction Fetch WatchPoint n FWPnCFG3 + Configuration 3 +0x393+8n (0≤n≤7) Instruction Fetch WatchPoint n FWPnCFG4 + Configuration 4 +0x500 Debug Register DBG +0x501 Debug Exception Return Address DERA +0x502 Debug Exception Saved Data Register DSAVE +================= ===================================== ============== + +ERA, TLBRERA, MERRERA and DERA are sometimes also known as EPC, TLBREPC, MERREPC +and DEPC respectively. + +Basic Instruction Set +===================== + +Instruction formats +------------------- + +LoongArch instructions are 32 bits wide, belonging to 9 basic instruction +formats (and variants of them): + +=========== ========================== +Format name Composition +=========== ========================== +2R Opcode + Rj + Rd +3R Opcode + Rk + Rj + Rd +4R Opcode + Ra + Rk + Rj + Rd +2RI8 Opcode + I8 + Rj + Rd +2RI12 Opcode + I12 + Rj + Rd +2RI14 Opcode + I14 + Rj + Rd +2RI16 Opcode + I16 + Rj + Rd +1RI21 Opcode + I21L + Rj + I21H +I26 Opcode + I26L + I26H +=========== ========================== + +Rd is the destination register operand, while Rj, Rk and Ra ("a" stands for +"additional") are the source register operands. I8/I12/I14/I16/I21/I26 are +immediate operands of respective width. The longer I21 and I26 are stored +in separate higher and lower parts in the instruction word, denoted by the "L" +and "H" suffixes. + +List of Instructions +-------------------- + +For brevity, only instruction names (mnemonics) are listed here; please see the +:ref:`References <loongarch-references>` for details. + + +1. Arithmetic Instructions:: + + ADD.W SUB.W ADDI.W ADD.D SUB.D ADDI.D + SLT SLTU SLTI SLTUI + AND OR NOR XOR ANDN ORN ANDI ORI XORI + MUL.W MULH.W MULH.WU DIV.W DIV.WU MOD.W MOD.WU + MUL.D MULH.D MULH.DU DIV.D DIV.DU MOD.D MOD.DU + PCADDI PCADDU12I PCADDU18I + LU12I.W LU32I.D LU52I.D ADDU16I.D + +2. Bit-shift Instructions:: + + SLL.W SRL.W SRA.W ROTR.W SLLI.W SRLI.W SRAI.W ROTRI.W + SLL.D SRL.D SRA.D ROTR.D SLLI.D SRLI.D SRAI.D ROTRI.D + +3. Bit-manipulation Instructions:: + + EXT.W.B EXT.W.H CLO.W CLO.D SLZ.W CLZ.D CTO.W CTO.D CTZ.W CTZ.D + BYTEPICK.W BYTEPICK.D BSTRINS.W BSTRINS.D BSTRPICK.W BSTRPICK.D + REVB.2H REVB.4H REVB.2W REVB.D REVH.2W REVH.D BITREV.4B BITREV.8B BITREV.W BITREV.D + MASKEQZ MASKNEZ + +4. Branch Instructions:: + + BEQ BNE BLT BGE BLTU BGEU BEQZ BNEZ B BL JIRL + +5. Load/Store Instructions:: + + LD.B LD.BU LD.H LD.HU LD.W LD.WU LD.D ST.B ST.H ST.W ST.D + LDX.B LDX.BU LDX.H LDX.HU LDX.W LDX.WU LDX.D STX.B STX.H STX.W STX.D + LDPTR.W LDPTR.D STPTR.W STPTR.D + PRELD PRELDX + +6. Atomic Operation Instructions:: + + LL.W SC.W LL.D SC.D + AMSWAP.W AMSWAP.D AMADD.W AMADD.D AMAND.W AMAND.D AMOR.W AMOR.D AMXOR.W AMXOR.D + AMMAX.W AMMAX.D AMMIN.W AMMIN.D + +7. Barrier Instructions:: + + IBAR DBAR + +8. Special Instructions:: + + SYSCALL BREAK CPUCFG NOP IDLE ERTN(ERET) DBCL(DBGCALL) RDTIMEL.W RDTIMEH.W RDTIME.D + ASRTLE.D ASRTGT.D + +9. Privileged Instructions:: + + CSRRD CSRWR CSRXCHG + IOCSRRD.B IOCSRRD.H IOCSRRD.W IOCSRRD.D IOCSRWR.B IOCSRWR.H IOCSRWR.W IOCSRWR.D + CACOP TLBP(TLBSRCH) TLBRD TLBWR TLBFILL TLBCLR TLBFLUSH INVTLB LDDIR LDPTE + +Virtual Memory +============== + +LoongArch supports direct-mapped virtual memory and page-mapped virtual memory. + +Direct-mapped virtual memory is configured by CSR.DMWn (n=0~3), it has a simple +relationship between virtual address (VA) and physical address (PA):: + + VA = PA + FixedOffset + +Page-mapped virtual memory has arbitrary relationship between VA and PA, which +is recorded in TLB and page tables. LoongArch's TLB includes a fully-associative +MTLB (Multiple Page Size TLB) and set-associative STLB (Single Page Size TLB). + +By default, the whole virtual address space of LA32 is configured like this: + +============ =========================== ============================= +Name Address Range Attributes +============ =========================== ============================= +``UVRANGE`` ``0x00000000 - 0x7FFFFFFF`` Page-mapped, Cached, PLV0~3 +``KPRANGE0`` ``0x80000000 - 0x9FFFFFFF`` Direct-mapped, Uncached, PLV0 +``KPRANGE1`` ``0xA0000000 - 0xBFFFFFFF`` Direct-mapped, Cached, PLV0 +``KVRANGE`` ``0xC0000000 - 0xFFFFFFFF`` Page-mapped, Cached, PLV0 +============ =========================== ============================= + +User mode (PLV3) can only access UVRANGE. For direct-mapped KPRANGE0 and +KPRANGE1, PA is equal to VA with bit30~31 cleared. For example, the uncached +direct-mapped VA of 0x00001000 is 0x80001000, and the cached direct-mapped +VA of 0x00001000 is 0xA0001000. + +By default, the whole virtual address space of LA64 is configured like this: + +============ ====================== ====================================== +Name Address Range Attributes +============ ====================== ====================================== +``XUVRANGE`` ``0x0000000000000000 - Page-mapped, Cached, PLV0~3 + 0x3FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF`` +``XSPRANGE`` ``0x4000000000000000 - Direct-mapped, Cached / Uncached, PLV0 + 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF`` +``XKPRANGE`` ``0x8000000000000000 - Direct-mapped, Cached / Uncached, PLV0 + 0xBFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF`` +``XKVRANGE`` ``0xC000000000000000 - Page-mapped, Cached, PLV0 + 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF`` +============ ====================== ====================================== + +User mode (PLV3) can only access XUVRANGE. For direct-mapped XSPRANGE and +XKPRANGE, PA is equal to VA with bits 60~63 cleared, and the cache attribute +is configured by bits 60~61 in VA: 0 is for strongly-ordered uncached, 1 is +for coherent cached, and 2 is for weakly-ordered uncached. + +Currently we only use XKPRANGE for direct mapping and XSPRANGE is reserved. + +To put this in action: the strongly-ordered uncached direct-mapped VA (in +XKPRANGE) of 0x00000000_00001000 is 0x80000000_00001000, the coherent cached +direct-mapped VA (in XKPRANGE) of 0x00000000_00001000 is 0x90000000_00001000, +and the weakly-ordered uncached direct-mapped VA (in XKPRANGE) of 0x00000000 +_00001000 is 0xA0000000_00001000. + +Relationship of Loongson and LoongArch +====================================== + +LoongArch is a RISC ISA which is different from any other existing ones, while +Loongson is a family of processors. Loongson includes 3 series: Loongson-1 is +the 32-bit processor series, Loongson-2 is the low-end 64-bit processor series, +and Loongson-3 is the high-end 64-bit processor series. Old Loongson is based on +MIPS, while New Loongson is based on LoongArch. Take Loongson-3 as an example: +Loongson-3A1000/3B1500/3A2000/3A3000/3A4000 are MIPS-compatible, while Loongson- +3A5000 (and future revisions) are all based on LoongArch. + +.. _loongarch-references: + +References +========== + +Official web site of Loongson Technology Corp. Ltd.: + + http://www.loongson.cn/ + +Developer web site of Loongson and LoongArch (Software and Documentation): + + http://www.loongnix.cn/ + + https://github.com/loongson/ + + https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/ + +Documentation of LoongArch ISA: + + https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation/releases/latest/download/LoongArch-Vol1-v1.02-CN.pdf (in Chinese) + + https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation/releases/latest/download/LoongArch-Vol1-v1.02-EN.pdf (in English) + +Documentation of LoongArch ELF psABI: + + https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation/releases/latest/download/LoongArch-ELF-ABI-v2.00-CN.pdf (in Chinese) + + https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation/releases/latest/download/LoongArch-ELF-ABI-v2.00-EN.pdf (in English) + +Linux kernel repository of Loongson and LoongArch: + + https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson.git |