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When invalidating the instruction cache for a kernel mapping via flush_icache_range(), it is also necessary to flush the pipeline for other CPUs so that instructions fetched into the pipeline before the I-cache invalidation are discarded. For example, if module 'foo' is unloaded and then module 'bar' is loaded into the same area of memory, a CPU could end up executing instructions from 'foo' when branching into 'bar' if these instructions were fetched into the pipeline before 'foo' was unloaded. Whilst this is highly unlikely to occur in practice, particularly as any exception acts as a context-synchronizing operation, following the letter of the architecture requires us to execute an ISB on each CPU in order for the new instruction stream to be visible. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.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 Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.