[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 16/29] riscv: invalidate the instruction cache before jumping to Linux

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 02:14:00 UTC 2018


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:57 PM Lukas Auer
<lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>
> RISC-V does not guarantee that stores to instruction memory are visible
> to instruction fetches (i.e. incoherent instruction caches). Invalidate
> the instruction cache to ensure the kernel function pointer points to
> the correct memory location.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Auer <lukas.auer at aisec.fraunhofer.de>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Clarify reasoning behind patch in commit message
>
>  arch/riscv/lib/bootm.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>

Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>


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