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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#include <linux/linkage.h>
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#include <linux/syscalls.h>
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#include <asm-generic/syscalls.h>
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#include <asm/vdso.h>
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#undef __SYSCALL
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#define __SYSCALL(nr, call) [nr] = (call),
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void *sys_call_table[__NR_syscalls] = {
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[0 ... __NR_syscalls - 1] = sys_ni_syscall,
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#include <asm/unistd.h>
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#include <asm/vdso-syscalls.h>
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};
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