Commit 921ebd8f authored by Andrew Waterman's avatar Andrew Waterman Committed by Palmer Dabbelt
Browse files

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>
parent 08f051ed

arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h

+6 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -52,4 +52,10 @@ void flush_icache_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, bool local); 


#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */



/*

 * Bits in sys_riscv_flush_icache()'s flags argument.

 */

#define SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_LOCAL 1UL

#define SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_ALL   (SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_LOCAL)



#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_CACHEFLUSH_H */

arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso-syscalls.h

0 → 100644
+28 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line 
/*

 * 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 */

arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso.h

+4 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -38,4 +38,8 @@ struct vdso_data { 
	(void __user *)((unsigned long)(base) + __vdso_##name);			\

})



#ifdef CONFIG_SMP

asmlinkage long sys_riscv_flush_icache(uintptr_t, uintptr_t, uintptr_t);

#endif



#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_VDSO_H */

arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c

+32 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ 
#include <linux/syscalls.h>

#include <asm/cmpxchg.h>

#include <asm/unistd.h>

#include <asm/cacheflush.h>



static long riscv_sys_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,

			   unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
@@ -47,3 +48,34 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap2, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len, 
	return riscv_sys_mmap(addr, len, prot, flags, fd, offset, 12);

}

#endif /* !CONFIG_64BIT */



#ifdef CONFIG_SMP

/*

 * Allows the instruction cache to be flushed from userspace.  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.

 *

 * sys_riscv_flush_icache() is defined to flush the instruction cache over an

 * address range, with the flush applying to either all threads or just the

 * caller.  We don't currently do anything with the address range, that's just

 * in there for forwards compatibility.

 */

SYSCALL_DEFINE3(riscv_flush_icache, uintptr_t, start, uintptr_t, end,

	uintptr_t, flags)

{

	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;

	bool local = (flags & SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_LOCAL) != 0;



	/* Check the reserved flags. */

	if (unlikely(flags & !SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_ALL))

		return -EINVAL;



	flush_icache_mm(mm, local);



	return 0;

}

#endif

arch/riscv/kernel/syscall_table.c

+2 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -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>

};

CRA Git | Maintained and supported by SUSTech CRA and CCSE