On 2024-01-10 09:55, Andrea Parri wrote: [...]
diff --git a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt index d96b778b87ed8..a163170fc0f48 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) to go back to +# user-space.
I don't quite get the meaning of the sentence above. There seems to be a missing marker before "to go back". Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. https://www.efficios.com
