Notes on K210 MMU

The K210 has a MMU based on the RISC-V privileged spec 1.9.1.

This means that:

The sfence.vm (bit pattern 0x10400073) instruction should be used to synchronize updates to the page tables with current execution, not sfence.vma (bit pattern 0x12000073). See spec section 4.2.1.
The sptbr CSR (0x180, Supervisor Page-Table Base Register) specifies the current root page table. In the newer spec this register is called satp and is completely different.
In spec v1.9.1, sstatus.SUM is still PUM which has opposite meaning.
To switch on paging, set the VM bitfield (offset 24:28) of mstatus to Sv39 (9).

Also, reportedly interrupts do not work as expected in S mode, making that mode more or less useless. Only M and U mode can be used in practice.

To access paged memory from M mode, the MPRV bit in mstatus can be set, with MPP set to 0 (U mode). From the spec (section 3.1.9):

The MPRV bit modifies the privilege level at which loads and stores execute. When MPRV=0, translation and protection behave as normal. When MPRV=1, data memory addresses are trans- lated and protected as though the current privilege mode were set to MPP. Instruction address- translation and protection are unaffected

Examples

There is a little bit of example code for using the MMU on the K210:

[https://github.com/lizhirui/K210-Linux0.11.git](Linux0.11 with MMU)
https://github.com/44670/libk9/blob/develop/k9/CacheEngine.c
[https://github.com/oscourse-tsinghua/rcore_plus/issues/34#issuecomment-485145060](Some notes on porting a rust-based OS to K210)

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