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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/syscall_table.c
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/syscall_table.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
index 4e30dc5fb593..a5bd6401f95e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c
@@ -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>
};