[PATCH] lib: sbi: Correctly limit flushes to a single ASID/VMID

Samuel Holland samuel.holland at sifive.com
Thu Nov 16 04:35:52 PST 2023


Hi Anup,

On 2023-11-15 10:03 PM, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 3:50 AM Samuel Holland
> <samuel.holland at sifive.com> wrote:
>>
>> Per the SBI specification, the effects of these functions are limited to
>> a specific ASID and/or VMID. This applies even when flushing the entire
>> address space.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland at sifive.com>
> 
> This patch looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
> 
> Applied this patch to the riscv/opensbi repo.
> 
>> ---
>> The SBI spec doesn't say anything about this `start == 0 && size == 0`
>> exception, so I wonder if it should be removed entirely.
> 
> The SBI spec does define behaviour for `start == 0 && size == 0`.
> 
> At the beginning of "Chapter 8. RFENCE Extension" we have the
> following text which describes this behavior:
> 
> "
> The remote fence function acts as a full TLB flush if
> * start_addr and size are both 0
> * size is equal to 2^XLEN-1
> "

Thanks! I didn't see this paragraph in the spec. That explains the previous
implementation (even though I still think it was wrong): "acts as a full TLB
flush" could be interpreted to imply ignoring the ASID.

I would suggest updating the SBI documentation with more precise wording,
something like "applies to the entire address space". We should also copy this
paragraph to ext-legacy.adoc for the legacy remote SFENCE.VMA functions, since
the current paragraph technically does not apply to them.

If you agree, I will add these changes to
https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/pull/128
(or should I open a separate pull request?)

Regards,
Samuel

>>
>>  lib/sbi/sbi_tlb.c | 21 +++------------------
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/sbi/sbi_tlb.c b/lib/sbi/sbi_tlb.c
>> index ced2854..dad9508 100644
>> --- a/lib/sbi/sbi_tlb.c
>> +++ b/lib/sbi/sbi_tlb.c
>> @@ -111,12 +111,7 @@ void sbi_tlb_local_hfence_vvma_asid(struct sbi_tlb_info *tinfo)
>>         hgatp = csr_swap(CSR_HGATP,
>>                          (vmid << HGATP_VMID_SHIFT) & HGATP_VMID_MASK);
>>
>> -       if (start == 0 && size == 0) {
>> -               __sbi_hfence_vvma_all();
>> -               goto done;
>> -       }
>> -
>> -       if (size == SBI_TLB_FLUSH_ALL) {
>> +       if ((start == 0 && size == 0) || (size == SBI_TLB_FLUSH_ALL)) {
>>                 __sbi_hfence_vvma_asid(asid);
>>                 goto done;
>>         }
>> @@ -138,12 +133,7 @@ void sbi_tlb_local_hfence_gvma_vmid(struct sbi_tlb_info *tinfo)
>>
>>         sbi_pmu_ctr_incr_fw(SBI_PMU_FW_HFENCE_GVMA_VMID_RCVD);
>>
>> -       if (start == 0 && size == 0) {
>> -               __sbi_hfence_gvma_all();
>> -               return;
>> -       }
>> -
>> -       if (size == SBI_TLB_FLUSH_ALL) {
>> +       if ((start == 0 && size == 0) || (size == SBI_TLB_FLUSH_ALL)) {
>>                 __sbi_hfence_gvma_vmid(vmid);
>>                 return;
>>         }
>> @@ -162,13 +152,8 @@ void sbi_tlb_local_sfence_vma_asid(struct sbi_tlb_info *tinfo)
>>
>>         sbi_pmu_ctr_incr_fw(SBI_PMU_FW_SFENCE_VMA_ASID_RCVD);
>>
>> -       if (start == 0 && size == 0) {
>> -               tlb_flush_all();
>> -               return;
>> -       }
>> -
>>         /* Flush entire MM context for a given ASID */
>> -       if (size == SBI_TLB_FLUSH_ALL) {
>> +       if ((start == 0 && size == 0) || (size == SBI_TLB_FLUSH_ALL)) {
>>                 __asm__ __volatile__("sfence.vma x0, %0"
>>                                      :
>>                                      : "r"(asid)
>> --
>> 2.41.0
>>
>>
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> 
> Thanks,
> Anup




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