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Alexandre Ghiti authored
We used to emit a flush_icache_all() whenever a dirty executable mapping is set in the page table but we can instead call flush_icache_mm() which will only send IPIs to cores that currently run this mm and add a deferred icache flush to the others. The number of calls to sbi_remote_fence_i() (tested without IPI support): With a simple buildroot rootfs: * Before: ~5k * After : 4 (!) Tested on HW, the boot to login is ~4.5% faster. With an ubuntu rootfs: * Before: ~24k * After : ~13k Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202124711.256146-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.comSigned-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
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