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diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
index 4351be7d0533..c6c037eabaf6 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <asm/cmpxchg.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
static long riscv_sys_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
@@ -47,3 +48,34 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap2, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len,
return riscv_sys_mmap(addr, len, prot, flags, fd, offset, 12);
}
#endif /* !CONFIG_64BIT */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+/*
+ * Allows the instruction cache to be flushed from userspace. Despite RISC-V
+ * having a direct 'fence.i' instruction available to userspace (which we
+ * can't trap!), that's not actually viable when running on Linux because the
+ * kernel might schedule a process on another hart. There is no way for
+ * userspace to handle this without invoking the kernel (as it doesn't know the
+ * thread->hart mappings), so we've defined a RISC-V specific system call to
+ * flush the instruction cache.
+ *
+ * sys_riscv_flush_icache() is defined to flush the instruction cache over an
+ * address range, with the flush applying to either all threads or just the
+ * caller. We don't currently do anything with the address range, that's just
+ * in there for forwards compatibility.
+ */
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(riscv_flush_icache, uintptr_t, start, uintptr_t, end,
+ uintptr_t, flags)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+ bool local = (flags & SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_LOCAL) != 0;
+
+ /* Check the reserved flags. */
+ if (unlikely(flags & !SYS_RISCV_FLUSH_ICACHE_ALL))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ flush_icache_mm(mm, local);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif