RISC-V: Flush I$ when making a dirty page executable

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: Andrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
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Andrew Waterman 2017-10-25 14:30:32 -07:00 committed by Palmer Dabbelt
parent 28dfbe6ed4
commit 08f051eda3
8 changed files with 174 additions and 30 deletions

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@ -108,3 +108,51 @@ void smp_send_reschedule(int cpu)
{
send_ipi_message(cpumask_of(cpu), IPI_RESCHEDULE);
}
/*
* Performs an icache flush for the given MM context. RISC-V has no direct
* mechanism for instruction cache shoot downs, so instead we send an IPI that
* informs the remote harts they need to flush their local instruction caches.
* To avoid pathologically slow behavior in a common case (a bunch of
* single-hart processes on a many-hart machine, ie 'make -j') we avoid the
* IPIs for harts that are not currently executing a MM context and instead
* schedule a deferred local instruction cache flush to be performed before
* execution resumes on each hart.
*/
void flush_icache_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, bool local)
{
unsigned int cpu;
cpumask_t others, *mask;
preempt_disable();
/* Mark every hart's icache as needing a flush for this MM. */
mask = &mm->context.icache_stale_mask;
cpumask_setall(mask);
/* Flush this hart's I$ now, and mark it as flushed. */
cpu = smp_processor_id();
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mask);
local_flush_icache_all();
/*
* Flush the I$ of other harts concurrently executing, and mark them as
* flushed.
*/
cpumask_andnot(&others, mm_cpumask(mm), cpumask_of(cpu));
local |= cpumask_empty(&others);
if (mm != current->active_mm || !local)
sbi_remote_fence_i(others.bits);
else {
/*
* It's assumed that at least one strongly ordered operation is
* performed on this hart between setting a hart's cpumask bit
* and scheduling this MM context on that hart. Sending an SBI
* remote message will do this, but in the case where no
* messages are sent we still need to order this hart's writes
* with flush_icache_deferred().
*/
smp_mb();
}
preempt_enable();
}