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| author | Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> | 2024-01-31 17:49:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> | 2024-02-15 19:04:14 +0300 |
| commit | cd9b29014dc69609489261efe351d0c7709ae8bf (patch) | |
| tree | 0af8570de35f1c6b075dd7e53835fe0ffc5e379b /Documentation/features | |
| parent | 4ff4c745a16c4c151a71863420811e7f406c3ec2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cd9b29014dc69609489261efe351d0c7709ae8bf.tar.xz | |
membarrier: riscv: Provide core serializing command
RISC-V uses xRET instructions on return from interrupt and to go back
to user-space; the xRET instruction is not core serializing.
Use FENCE.I for providing core serialization as follows:
- by calling sync_core_before_usermode() on return from interrupt (cf.
ipi_sync_core()),
- via switch_mm() and sync_core_before_usermode() (respectively, for
uthread->uthread and kthread->uthread transitions) before returning
to user-space.
On RISC-V, the serialization in switch_mm() is activated by resetting
the icache_stale_mask of the mm at prepare_sync_core_cmd().
Suggested-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240131144936.29190-5-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/features')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt index d96b778b87ed..7425d2b994a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt @@ -10,6 +10,22 @@ # Rely on implicit context synchronization as a result of exception return # when returning from IPI handler, and when returning to user-space. # +# * riscv +# +# riscv uses xRET as return from interrupt and to return to user-space. +# +# Given that xRET is not core serializing, we rely on FENCE.I for providing +# core serialization: +# +# - by calling sync_core_before_usermode() on return from interrupt (cf. +# ipi_sync_core()), +# +# - via switch_mm() and sync_core_before_usermode() (respectively, for +# uthread->uthread and kthread->uthread transitions) before returning +# to user-space. +# +# The serialization in switch_mm() is activated by prepare_sync_core_cmd(). +# # * x86 # # x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI. @@ -43,7 +59,7 @@ | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | | powerpc: | ok | - | riscv: | TODO | + | riscv: | ok | | s390: | ok | | sh: | TODO | | sparc: | TODO | |