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[PowerPC] IFUNC kernel support, fix relocatable kernel oddities for ppc64
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Authored by bdragon on Jan 13 2020, 8:08 PM.
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This is almost ready, pending some patches it depends on.

  • Change relocatable kernel related #ifdefs to be RELOCATABLE_KERNEL instead of powerpc, to allow for other platforms to use relocatable kernels in the future.
  • Add powerpc64 and powerpc32 ifunc bits.
  • Add a trick to relocate to the DMAP even on virtual mode 64 bit OpenFirmware. (32 bit currently runs identity-mapped and does not need this ability)
  • Remove DB_STOFFS hack so we start getting a real picture of what's going on with memory addresses on PPC64.
  • Fix symbol relocation to work as intended by relocating the symbol table values. (XXX need to check if there's a more straightforward way to process this.)
  • Add a trick to allow self-loading symbol tables on powernv by setting the initrd to load the kernel binary.

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sys/powerpc/aim/locore64.S
238 ↗(On Diff #66697)

I would love to know if anyone has any reason NOT to do this.

As far as I can tell, 64 bit AIM using virtual mode OpenFirmware = Power Macintosh G5, full stop. Everything else that I'm aware of uses real mode OF and doesn't have to do this in the first place.

255 ↗(On Diff #66697)

This is actually the reason that those OFW decrementer traps happen -- Apple forgot to install the segment traps, so if there's a segment fault, it ends up faulting in a loop on the first instruction until the decrementer times out.

I haven't tested this, because when I tried it, it didn't work. I later realized that the reason it didn't work was that I'd forgotten to icbi it.

sys/powerpc/aim/locore64.S
222 ↗(On Diff #66697)

need to add to comment: "We exit real mode at the end of __restartkernel when we rfid."

229 ↗(On Diff #66697)

I should probably be loading the SLBE relevant bits of DMAP_BASE_ADDRESS instead of hardcoding it here.

247 ↗(On Diff #66697)

I can probably tighten up on these syncs more than this. But meh, I'd rather not have to pore over openfirmware .register output any more than I have to.

268 ↗(On Diff #66697)

Another way to do this is to check if the entire trap area for the trap is empty, and if so, copy the 0x?00-0x?7f bytes in.

sys/powerpc/include/db_machdep.h
89 ↗(On Diff #66697)

Need to *actually* remove this code in the final version. As well as probably cleaning up the hack in the rest of the kernel code, I am pretty sure that the only reason it existed was for ppc64.

sys/powerpc/ofw/ofw_initrd.c
99 ↗(On Diff #66697)

This memcpy is for alignment reasons.

sys/powerpc/powerpc/elf64_machdep.c
347 ↗(On Diff #66697)

Current kernel ABI for ifuncs doesn't utilize parameter passing like the user ifuncs do.

If it turns out to be problematic, we should add cpu_features / cpu_features2 as well as info about what mmu is installed.

sys/powerpc/powerpc/machdep.c
367 ↗(On Diff #66697)

Nobody had to handle this previously because none of the other platforms had relocatable kernels and ours had the DB_STOFFS hack.
Turning off the hack was illuminating as to what was actually going on!

bdragon marked 4 inline comments as not done.Jan 13 2020, 8:38 PM
sys/conf/kern.pre.mk
162 ↗(On Diff #66697)

Might want to update this error as well :)

bdragon retitled this revision from [PowerPC] WIP: PPC64 ifuncs, solve remaining relocatable kernel oddities to [PowerPC] IFUNC kernel support, fix relocatable kernel oddities for ppc64.
bdragon edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)
  • Extend ifunc support to ppc32 (requires the ppc32 lld10 patchset, will post them for review shortly)

Updating comments.

sys/powerpc/aim/locore64.S
254 ↗(On Diff #69622)

I should take this block back out before committing.

sys/powerpc/powerpc/machdep.c
752 ↗(On Diff #69622)

I need to remove this block before committing.

For now, it's handy for verifying ifunc operation.

Any update to this? I'm eager to IFUNC-ify pmap, maybe squeak in a little performance boost from it.

This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.May 7 2020, 7:33 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.