Improve the performance of icache flushing by creating a new prctl flag PR_RISCV_SET_ICACHE_FLUSH_CTX. The interface is left generic to allow for future expansions such as with the proposed J extension [1]. Documentation is also provided to explain the use case. [1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-j-extension Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Charlie Jenkins (2): riscv: Include riscv_set_icache_flush_ctx prctl documentation: Document PR_RISCV_SET_ICACHE_FLUSH_CTX prctl Documentation/arch/riscv/cmodx.rst | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/arch/riscv/index.rst | 1 + arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu.h | 2 + arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 6 +++ arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c | 37 ++++++++++++++ arch/riscv/mm/context.c | 8 ++-- include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 3 ++ kernel/sys.c | 6 +++ 8 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- base-commit: b85ea95d086471afb4ad062012a4d73cd328fa86 change-id: 20231117-fencei-f9f60d784fa0 -- - Charlie
