1. Mar 29, 2018
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    • Andrew Waterman's avatar
      RISC-V: Limit the scope of TLB shootdowns · f1b65f20
      Andrew Waterman authored
      
      
      RISC-V systems perform TLB shootdows via the SBI, which currently
      performs an IPI to each of the remote harts which then performs a local
      TLB flush.  This process is a bit on the slow side, but we can at least
      speed it up for some common cases by restricting the set of harts to
      shoot down to the actual set of harts that are currently participating
      in the given mm context, as opposed to the entire system.
      
      This should provide a measurable performance increase, but we haven't
      measured it.  Regardless, it seems like obviously the right thing to do
      here.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
      f1b65f20
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      riscv: disable SUM in the exception handler · fe9b842f
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      
      The SUM bit is enabled at the beginning of the copy_{to,from}_user and
      {get,put}_user routines, and cleared before they return.  But these user
      copy helper can be interrupted by exceptions, in which case the SUM bit
      will remain set, which leads to elevated privileges for the code running
      in exception context, as that can now access userspace address space
      unconditionally.  This frequently happens when the user copy routines
      access freshly allocated user memory that hasn't been faulted in, and a
      pagefault needs to be taken before the user copy routines can continue.
      
      Fix this by unconditionally clearing SUM when the exception handler is
      called - the restore code will automatically restore it based on the
      saved value.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
      fe9b842f