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From: Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@synaptics.com>
To: Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me>
Cc: Alex Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Andrew Waterman <waterman@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] implement flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:08:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210412150817.33f49be8@xhacker.debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210412000531.12249-1-liu@jiuyang.me>

Hi Jiuyang,

On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:05:30 +0000 Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me> wrote:


> 
> This patch implements flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V, since it modifies PTE.
> Without this patch, SFENCE.VMA won't be added to related codes, which
> might introduce a bug in the out-of-order micro-architecture
> implementations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiuyang Liu <liu@jiuyang.me>
> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>

IIRC, Palmer hasn't given this Reviewed-by tag.

> ---

Could you plz add version and changes? IIRC, this is the v3.

>  arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> index 23ff70350992..3fd528badc35 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h
> @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ static inline void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
>  #define flush_icache_user_page(vma, pg, addr, len) \
>         flush_icache_mm(vma->vm_mm, 0)
> 
> +/*
> + * flush_cache_vmap is invoked after map_kernel_range() has installed the page
> + * table entries, which modifies PTE, SFENCE.VMA should be inserted.

Just my humble opinion, flush_cache_vmap() may not be necessary. vmalloc_fault
can take care of this, and finally sfence.vma is inserted in related path.

Regards

> + */
> +#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end) flush_tlb_all()
> +
>  #ifndef CONFIG_SMP
> 
>  #define flush_icache_all() local_flush_icache_all()
> --
> 2.31.1

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-12  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-12  0:05 [PATCH] implement flush_cache_vmap for RISC-V Jiuyang Liu
2021-04-12  7:08 ` Jisheng Zhang [this message]
2021-04-14  7:03   ` Alex Ghiti
2021-04-14  9:16     ` Jiuyang Liu
2021-04-23  4:39     ` Palmer Dabbelt

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