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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 5c9ed39..efd89a8 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -52,4 +52,10 @@ void flush_icache_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, bool local);
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+/*
+ * Bits in sys_riscv_flush_icache()'s flags argument.
+ */
+#define SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_LOCAL 1UL
+#define SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_ALL (SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_LOCAL)
+
#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_CACHEFLUSH_H */
