This merge contains the user-visible, ABI-breaking changes that we want
to make sure we have in Linux before our first release. Highlights
include:
* VDSO entries for clock_get/gettimeofday/getcpu have been added. These
are simple syscalls now, but we want to let glibc use them from the
start so we can make them faster later.
* A VDSO entry for instruction cache flushing has been added so
userspace can flush the instruction cache.
* The VDSO symbol versions for __vdso_cmpxchg{32,64} have been removed,
as those VDSO entries don't actually exist.
Conflicts:
arch/riscv/include/asm/tlbflush.h
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>
This is just a comment change, but it's one that bit me on the mailing
list. It turns out that issuing a `sfence.vma` enforces instruction
cache ordering in addition to TLB ordering. This isn't explicitly
called out in the ISA manual, but Andrew will be making that more clear
in a future revision.
CC: Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
This contains all the code that directly interfaces with the RISC-V
memory model. While this code corforms to the current RISC-V ISA
specifications (user 2.2 and priv 1.10), the memory model is somewhat
underspecified in those documents. There is a working group that hopes
to produce a formal memory model by the end of the year, but my
understanding is that the basic definitions we're relying on here won't
change significantly.
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
