RISC-V: only flush icache when it has VM_EXEC set
authorYangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name>
Tue, 9 Jan 2024 18:48:59 +0000 (02:48 +0800)
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:29:27 +0000 (07:29 -0700)
commit542124fc0d5cccea273bccf2ee58545ac17aad3f
tree379b39aa329dfbbc4e7f711675719c189c28dd22
parent84c3a079ab98f729e9a968a201d9aa8d196195a1
RISC-V: only flush icache when it has VM_EXEC set

As I-Cache flush on current RISC-V needs to send IPIs to every CPU cores
in the system is very costly, limiting flush_icache_mm to be called only
when vma->vm_flags has VM_EXEC can help minimize the frequency of these
operations. It improves performance and reduces disturbances when
copy_from_user_page is needed such as profiling with perf.

For I-D coherence concerns, it will not fail if such a page adds VM_EXEC
flags in the future since we have checked it in the __set_pte_at function.

Signed-off-by: Yangyu Chen <cyy@cyyself.name>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_6D851035F6F2FD0B5A69FB391AE39AC6300A@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
arch/riscv/include/asm/cacheflush.h