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RISC-V: Allow userspace to flush the instruction cache
authorAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:32:16 +0000 (14:32 -0700)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:58:29 +0000 (12:58 -0800)
commit921ebd8f2c081b3cf6c3b29ef4103eef3ff26054
treee3302d6371f434b91b4194da53342095c68363dd
parent08f051eda33b51e8ee0f45f05bcfe49d0f0caf6b
RISC-V: Allow userspace to flush the instruction cache

Despite RISC-V having a direct 'fence.i' instruction available to
userspace (which we can't trap!), that's not actually viable when
running on Linux because the kernel might schedule a process on another
hart.  There is no way for userspace to handle this without invoking the
kernel (as it doesn't know the thread->hart mappings), so we've defined
a RISC-V specific system call to flush the instruction cache.

This patch adds both a system call and a VDSO entry.  If possible, we'd
like to avoid having the system call be considered part of the
user-facing ABI and instead restrict that to the VDSO entry -- both just
in general to avoid having additional user-visible ABI to maintain, and
because we'd prefer that users just call the VDSO entry because there
might be a better way to do this in the future (ie, one that doesn't
require entering the kernel).

Signed-off-by: Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso-syscalls.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h
arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/flush_icache.S [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S