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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:40 +0000 |
| commit | 8b0a8165cdad0f4133837d753649ef4682e42c3b (patch) | |
| tree | 5c58f869f31ddb1f7bd6e8bdea269b680b36c5b6 /Documentation/features | |
| parent | Releasing progress-linux version 6.8.12-1~progress7.99u1. (diff) | |
| download | linux-8b0a8165cdad0f4133837d753649ef4682e42c3b.tar.xz linux-8b0a8165cdad0f4133837d753649ef4682e42c3b.zip | |
Merging upstream version 6.9.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/features')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt index d96b778b87..7425d2b994 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) before returning +# to user-space. +# +# The serialization in switch_mm() is activated by prepare_sync_core_cmd(). +# # * x86 # # x86-32 uses IRET as return from interrupt, which takes care of the IPI. @@ -43,7 +59,7 @@ | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | | powerpc: | ok | - | riscv: | TODO | + | riscv: | ok | | s390: | ok | | sh: | TODO | | sparc: | TODO | |