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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/kernel/vdso/Makefile | |
| 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/kernel/vdso/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile index 2dcc4f3070bc..324568d33921 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ vdso-syms += gettimeofday vdso-syms += clock_gettime vdso-syms += clock_getres vdso-syms += getcpu +vdso-syms += flush_icache # Files to link into the vdso obj-vdso = $(patsubst %, %.o, $(vdso-syms)) |