Re: [PATCH v10 7/7] RISC-V: Use IPIs for remote icache flush when possible

[Atish Patra]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 7:35 AM Anup Patel <apatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If we have specialized interrupt controller (such as AIA IMSIC) which
> allows supervisor mode to directly inject IPIs without any assistance
> from M-mode or HS-mode then using such specialized interrupt controller,
> we can do remote icache flushe directly from supervisor mode instead of
> using the SBI RFENCE calls.
>
> This patch extends remote icache flush functions to use supervisor mode
> IPIs whenever direct supervisor mode IPIs.are supported by interrupt
> controller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c b/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
> index 57b40a350420..f10cb47eac3a 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/cacheflush.c
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ void flush_icache_all(void)
>  {
>         local_flush_icache_all();
>
> -       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_SBI))
> +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_SBI) && !riscv_use_ipi_for_rfence())
>                 sbi_remote_fence_i(NULL);
>         else
>                 on_each_cpu(ipi_remote_fence_i, NULL, 1);
> @@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ void flush_icache_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, bool local)
>                  * with flush_icache_deferred().
>                  */
>                 smp_mb();
> -       } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_SBI)) {
> +       } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV_SBI) &&
> +                  !riscv_use_ipi_for_rfence()) {
>                 sbi_remote_fence_i(&others);
>         } else {
>                 on_each_cpu_mask(&others, ipi_remote_fence_i, NULL, 1);
> --
> 2.34.1
>

Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Regards,
Atish