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>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index de1fc1631fc4..b15b169e3d22 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2012 Regents of the University of California
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 SiFive
  *
  *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  *   modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 
 static inline void enter_lazy_tlb(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	struct task_struct *task)
@@ -46,12 +48,54 @@ static inline void set_pgdir(pgd_t *pgd)
 	csr_write(sptbr, virt_to_pfn(pgd) | SPTBR_MODE);
 }
 
+/*
+ * When necessary, performs a deferred icache flush for the given MM context,
+ * on the local CPU.  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.  This
+ * actually performs that local instruction cache flush, which implicitly only
+ * refers to the current hart.
+ */
+static inline void flush_icache_deferred(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+	cpumask_t *mask = &mm->context.icache_stale_mask;
+
+	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mask)) {
+		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mask);
+		/*
+		 * Ensure the remote hart's writes are visible to this hart.
+		 * This pairs with a barrier in flush_icache_mm.
+		 */
+		smp_mb();
+		local_flush_icache_all();
+	}
+#endif
+}
+
 static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev,
 	struct mm_struct *next, struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	if (likely(prev != next)) {
+		/*
+		 * Mark the current MM context as inactive, and the next as
+		 * active.  This is at least used by the icache flushing
+		 * routines in order to determine who should
+		 */
+		unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(prev));
+		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
+
 		set_pgdir(next->pgd);
 		local_flush_tlb_all();
+
+		flush_icache_deferred(next);
 	}
 }