RFR: 8310656: RISC-V: __builtin___clear_cache can fail silently.

[Robbin Ehn]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:19:47 GMT, Robbin Ehn <rehn at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi, please consider.
> 
> We recently had a bug where user were missing permissions to use this syscall.
> Which caused crashing on, according to hs_err on things like "addi x11, x24, 0" with SIGILL.
> If it fails it is even possible to execute valid but 'old' instruction which may not lead to a crash, instead the program misbehaves.
> 
> To avoid this mess I suggest that we first test the syscall during vm init and we use it directly.
> This way we can make sure it never fails.
> 
> Tested failing syscall with qemu, tested t1 in qemu, t1 on jh7110 in-progress.

Pushed small update.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14670#issuecomment-1614342122