linux/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h
Andrew Waterman 08f051eda3 RISC-V: Flush I$ when making a dirty page executable
The RISC-V ISA allows for instruction caches that are not coherent WRT
stores, even on a single hart.  As a result, we need to explicitly flush
the instruction cache whenever marking a dirty page as executable in
order to preserve the correct system behavior.

Local instruction caches aren't that scary (our implementations actually
flush the cache, but RISC-V is defined to allow higher-performance
implementations to exist), but RISC-V defines no way to perform an
instruction cache shootdown.  When explicitly asked to do so we can
shoot down remote instruction caches via an IPI, but this is a bit on
the slow side.

Instead of requiring an IPI to all harts whenever marking a page as
executable, we simply flush the currently running harts.  In order to
maintain correct behavior, we additionally mark every other hart as
needing a deferred instruction cache which will be taken before anything
runs on it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
2017-11-30 12:58:25 -08:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2012 Regents of the University of California
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2.
*
* 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.
*/
#ifndef _ASM_RISCV_MMU_H
#define _ASM_RISCV_MMU_H
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
typedef struct {
void *vdso;
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/* A local icache flush is needed before user execution can resume. */
cpumask_t icache_stale_mask;
#endif
} mm_context_t;
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#endif /* _ASM_RISCV_MMU_H */