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If the CPU does not support multiple ASIDs, all MM contexts use ASID 0. In this case, it is still beneficial to flush the TLB by ASID, as the single-ASID variant of the sfence.vma instruction preserves TLB entries for global (kernel) pages. This optimization is recommended by the RISC-V privileged specification: If the implementation does not provide ASIDs, or software chooses to always use ASID 0, then after every satp write, software should execute SFENCE.VMA with rs1=x0. In the common case that no global translations have been modified, rs2 should be set to a register other than x0 but which contains the value zero, so that global translations are not flushed. It is not possible to apply this optimization when using the ASID allocator, because that code must flush the TLB for all ASIDs at once when incrementing the version number. Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240327045035.368512-13-samuel.holland@sifive.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.