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authorAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>2017-10-25 14:32:16 -0700
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>2017-11-30 12:58:29 -0800
commit921ebd8f2c081b3cf6c3b29ef4103eef3ff26054 (patch)
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parentRISC-V: Flush I$ when making a dirty page executable (diff)
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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>
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diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
index c7543c6a00f9..cd1d47e0724b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ VERSION
__vdso_clock_gettime;
__vdso_clock_getres;
__vdso_getcpu;
+ __vdso_flush_icache;
local: *;
};
}