aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/loongarch/introduction.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
committerLibravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-21 18:24:12 -0800
commit5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2 (patch)
treecc5c2d0a898769fd59549594fedb3ee6f84e59a0 /Documentation/loongarch/introduction.rst
downloadlinux-5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2.tar.gz
linux-5b7c4cabbb65f5c469464da6c5f614cbd7f730f2.zip
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(). ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/loongarch/introduction.rst')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/loongarch/introduction.rst390
1 files changed, 390 insertions, 0 deletions
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