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authorAndrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>2024-01-31 17:49:36 +0300
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2024-02-15 19:04:14 +0300
commitcd9b29014dc69609489261efe351d0c7709ae8bf (patch)
tree0af8570de35f1c6b075dd7e53835fe0ffc5e379b /Documentation/features/sched
parent4ff4c745a16c4c151a71863420811e7f406c3ec2 (diff)
downloadlinux-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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt18
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 |