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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/syscalls.h')
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diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/syscalls.h b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/syscalls.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..818655b0d535 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/syscalls.h @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ +/* + * Copyright (C) 2017 SiFive + */ + +#ifndef _ASM__UAPI__SYSCALLS_H +#define _ASM__UAPI__SYSCALLS_H + +/* + * Allows the instruction cache to be flushed from userspace. 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. + * + * __NR_riscv_flush_icache is defined to flush the instruction cache over an + * address range, with the flush applying to either all threads or just the + * caller. We don't currently do anything with the address range, that's just + * in there for forwards compatibility. + */ +#define __NR_riscv_flush_icache (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 15) +__SYSCALL(__NR_riscv_flush_icache, sys_riscv_flush_icache) + +#endif |