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+#ifndef _BITS_VIRT_OFFSET_H
+#define _BITS_VIRT_OFFSET_H
+
+/** @file
+ *
+ * RISCV-specific virtual address offset
+ *
+ * We use the thread pointer register (tp) to hold the virtual address
+ * offset, so that virtual-to-physical address translations work as
+ * expected even while we are executing directly from read-only memory
+ * (and so cannot store a value in a global virt_offset variable).
+ *
+ */
+
+FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL );
+
+/**
+ * Read virtual address offset held in thread pointer register
+ *
+ * @ret virt_offset Virtual address offset
+ */
+static inline __attribute__ (( const, always_inline )) unsigned long
+tp_virt_offset ( void ) {
+ register unsigned long tp asm ( "tp" );
+
+ __asm__ ( "" : "=r" ( tp ) );
+ return tp;
+}
+
+/** Always read thread pointer register to get virtual address offset */
+#define virt_offset tp_virt_offset()
+
+#endif /* _BITS_VIRT_OFFSET_H */