Re: [PATCH 2/3] loongarch: Introduce sys_loongarch_flush_icache syscall

[Jiaxun Yang]

在2025年1月4日一月 下午3:07，Arnd Bergmann写道：
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Hi Arnd,

Thanks for your comments!

>
> I think for consistency with other architectures, we want start/length/flags
> instead of start/end/flags.
>
> The meaning of the third argument is rather inconsistent between
> architectures already, but at least the second argument is always
> length so far.

So this is actually designed to be aligned with RISC-V's semantics,
and thus all arguments are aligned with RISC-V.

IMO RISC-V's semantics is a better design that we should take, as
I replied to Jinyang above.

>
>
>>> diff --git a/scripts/syscall.tbl b/scripts/syscall.tbl
>>> index ebbdb3c42e9f74613b003014c0baf44c842bb756..723fe859956809f26d6ec50ad7812933531ef687 100644
>>> --- a/scripts/syscall.tbl
>>> +++ b/scripts/syscall.tbl
>>> @@ -298,6 +298,8 @@
>>>   244	csky	set_thread_area			sys_set_thread_area
>>>   245	csky	cacheflush			sys_cacheflush
>>>   
>>> +259	loongarch       loongarch_flush_icache	sys_loongarch_flush_icache
>>
>> Can we use cacheflush as arc, csky and nios2?
>
> Agreed. I would also use the number 244 instead of 259 here.

259 is also selected to be aligned with RISC-V.

Thanks
>
>      Arnd

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