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authorVivian Wang <wangruikang@iscas.ac.cn>2026-04-05 03:42:40 +0300
committerPaul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>2026-04-05 03:42:40 +0300
commit31454cb5f1a37eefe2465601418a978b7668424e (patch)
treeba6848e820e530244656ad324e24d1e10194bc8a
parentfe0cf82fdeb318e8b2c78a4142385f42f467ff8c (diff)
downloadlinux-31454cb5f1a37eefe2465601418a978b7668424e.tar.xz
riscv: smp: Clarify comment "cache" -> "instruction cache"
local_flush_icache_all() only flushes and synchronizes the *instruction* cache, not the data cache. Since RISC-V does have a cbo.flush instruction for data cache flush, clarify the comment to avoid confusion. Fixes: 58661a30f1bc ("riscv: Flush the instruction cache during SMP bringup") Signed-off-by: Vivian Wang <wangruikang@iscas.ac.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204-riscv-smp-comment-update-2026-01-v1-2-8b77aa181530@iscas.ac.cn Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
index 0e6fe20c69a2..8b628580fe11 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void smp_callin(void)
set_cpu_online(curr_cpuid, true);
/*
- * Remote cache and TLB flushes are ignored while the CPU is offline,
- * so flush them both right now just in case.
+ * Remote instruction cache and TLB flushes are ignored while the CPU
+ * is offline, so flush them both right now just in case.
*/
local_flush_icache_all();
local_flush_tlb_all();