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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Andrew Waterman
2017-10-25 14:32:16 -07:00
committed by Palmer Dabbelt
parent 08f051eda3
commit 921ebd8f2c
8 changed files with 105 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <asm-generic/syscalls.h>
#include <asm/vdso.h>
#undef __SYSCALL
#define __SYSCALL(nr, call) [nr] = (call),
@@ -22,4 +23,5 @@
void *sys_call_table[__NR_syscalls] = {
[0 ... __NR_syscalls - 1] = sys_ni_syscall,
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include <asm/vdso-syscalls.h>
};