1. 01 12月, 2017 1 次提交
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      RISC-V: Flush I$ when making a dirty page executable · 08f051ed
      Andrew Waterman 提交于
      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: NAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
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  2. 27 9月, 2017 1 次提交