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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>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.