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<title>RISC-V: Make __NR_riscv_flush_icache visible to userspace</title>
<updated>2018-01-07T23:14:37+00:00</updated>
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<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
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<published>2017-12-27T03:11:22+00:00</published>
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We were hoping to avoid making this visible to userspace, but it looks
like we're going to have to because QEMU's user-mode emulation doesn't
want to emulate a vDSO.  Having vDSO-only system calls was a bit
unothodox anyway, so I think in this case it's OK to just make the
actual system call number public.

This patch simply moves the definition of __NR_riscv_flush_icache
availiable to userspace, which results in the deletion of the now empty
vdso-syscalls.h.

Changes since v1:

* I've moved the definition into uapi/asm/syscalls.h rathen than
  uapi/asm/unistd.h.  This allows me to keep asm/unistd.h, so we can
  keep the syscall table macros sane.
* As a side effect of the above, this no longer disables all system
  calls on RISC-V.  Whoops!

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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We were hoping to avoid making this visible to userspace, but it looks
like we're going to have to because QEMU's user-mode emulation doesn't
want to emulate a vDSO.  Having vDSO-only system calls was a bit
unothodox anyway, so I think in this case it's OK to just make the
actual system call number public.

This patch simply moves the definition of __NR_riscv_flush_icache
availiable to userspace, which results in the deletion of the now empty
vdso-syscalls.h.

Changes since v1:

* I've moved the definition into uapi/asm/syscalls.h rathen than
  uapi/asm/unistd.h.  This allows me to keep asm/unistd.h, so we can
  keep the syscall table macros sane.
* As a side effect of the above, this no longer disables all system
  calls on RISC-V.  Whoops!

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>RISC-V: Allow userspace to flush the instruction cache</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T20:58:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Waterman</name>
<email>andrew@sifive.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-25T21:32:16+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;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 &lt;andrew@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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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-&gt;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 &lt;andrew@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
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<title>RISC-V: User-facing API</title>
<updated>2017-09-26T22:26:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
<email>palmer@dabbelt.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-11T01:07:09+00:00</published>
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This patch contains code that is in some way visible to the user:
including via system calls, the VDSO, module loading and signal
handling.  It also contains some generic code that is ABI visible.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
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This patch contains code that is in some way visible to the user:
including via system calls, the VDSO, module loading and signal
handling.  It also contains some generic code that is ABI visible.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
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