MIPS64 modules

[Alan Cox]

On 01/12/2012 01:50, Jayachandran C. wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko<gonzo at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>>     Modules on MIPS use the same interface as AMD64 modules:
>> sys/kern/link_elf_obj.c. It works for MIPS32 but there is a problem
>> with MIPS64. sys/kern/link_elf_obj.c calls vm_map_find that uses
>> KERNBASE as a map base. As I told - it works for mips32 because
>> KERNBASE for mips32 is located before actual virtual memory area
>> (KERNBASE points to directly-mapped KSEG0 segment). But for MIPS64
>> it's not the case - KERNBASE points to the very end of address space
>> and vm_map_find fails.
>>
>> Using VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS fixes this problem. So the question is -
>> what should I do? Add #ifdef to link_elf_obj.c as in kmem_init in
>> vm/vm_kern.c or change KERNBASE to VM_MIN_KERNEL_ADDRESS?
> This is probably the right fix for both 32 and 64-bit mips. Using a
> KSEG0 address as argument for vm_map_find is not correct as the kernel
> map does not include that region for mips.
>
> This reminds me of another issue I had seen in kern/link_elf.c, the
> value of linker_kernel_file->address is also set to KERNBASE, but this
> really should be KERNLOADADDR (used in our conf files) for mips.

I was somewhat surprised to find that KERNBASE points to the direct 
map.  What is the virtual address range for a running kernel's code and 
data segments?  In other words, are the kernel code and data segments 
accessed through the direct map even after initialization?

Alan