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Commit 921ebd8f authored by Andrew Waterman's avatar Andrew Waterman Committed by Palmer Dabbelt
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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: default avatarAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
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