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| author | Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com> | 2017-10-25 14:32:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com> | 2017-11-30 12:58:29 -0800 |
| commit | 921ebd8f2c081b3cf6c3b29ef4103eef3ff26054 (patch) | |
| tree | e3302d6371f434b91b4194da53342095c68363dd /arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso-syscalls.h | |
| parent | 08f051eda33b51e8ee0f45f05bcfe49d0f0caf6b (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/include/asm/vdso-syscalls.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso-syscalls.h | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso-syscalls.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso-syscalls.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a2ccf1894929 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso-syscalls.h @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +/* + * 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 version 2 as + * published by the Free Software Foundation. + * + * 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. + * + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + */ + +#ifndef _ASM_RISCV_VDSO_SYSCALLS_H +#define _ASM_RISCV_VDSO_SYSCALLS_H + +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP + +/* These syscalls are only used by the vDSO and are not in the uapi. */ +#define __NR_riscv_flush_icache (__NR_arch_specific_syscall + 15) +__SYSCALL(__NR_riscv_flush_icache, sys_riscv_flush_icache) + +#endif + +#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_VDSO_H */ |