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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)
treee3302d6371f434b91b4194da53342095c68363dd /arch/riscv/kernel/vdso
parent08f051eda33b51e8ee0f45f05bcfe49d0f0caf6b (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv/kernel/vdso')
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/flush_icache.S31
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S1
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index 2dcc4f3070bc..324568d33921 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ vdso-syms += gettimeofday
vdso-syms += clock_gettime
vdso-syms += clock_getres
vdso-syms += getcpu
+vdso-syms += flush_icache
# Files to link into the vdso
obj-vdso = $(patsubst %, %.o, $(vdso-syms))
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/flush_icache.S b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/flush_icache.S
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b0fbad74e873
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/flush_icache.S
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 SiFive
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <asm/unistd.h>
+#include <asm/vdso-syscalls.h>
+
+ .text
+/* int __vdso_flush_icache(void *start, void *end, unsigned long flags); */
+ENTRY(__vdso_flush_icache)
+ .cfi_startproc
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ li a7, __NR_riscv_flush_icache
+ ecall
+#else
+ fence.i
+ li a0, 0
+#endif
+ ret
+ .cfi_endproc
+ENDPROC(__vdso_flush_icache)
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: *;
};
}