linux-stable/arch
Mark Rutland a3bba370c2 arm64: drop unnecessary cache+tlb maintenance
In paging_init, we call flush_cache_all, but this is backed by Set/Way
operations which may not achieve anything in the presence of cache line
migration and/or system caches. If the caches are already in an
inconsistent state at this point, there is nothing we can do (short of
flushing the entire physical address space by VA) to empty architected
and system caches. As such, flush_cache_all only serves to mask other
potential bugs. Hence, this patch removes the boot-time call to
flush_cache_all.

Immediately after the cache maintenance we flush the TLBs, but this is
also unnecessary. Before enabling the MMU, the TLBs are invalidated, and
thus are initially clean. When changing the contents of active tables
(e.g. in fixup_executable() for DEBUG_RODATA) we perform the required
TLB maintenance following the update, and therefore no additional
maintenance is required to ensure the new table entries are in effect.
Since activating the MMU we will not have modified system register
fields permitted to be cached in a TLB, and therefore do not need
maintenance for any cached system register fields. Hence, the TLB flush
is unnecessary.

Shortly after the unnecessary TLB flush, we update TTBR0 to point to an
empty zero page rather than the idmap, and flush the TLBs. This
maintenance is necessary to remove the global idmap entries from the
TLBs (as they would conflict with userspace mappings), and is retained.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2015-01-28 14:26:48 +00:00
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alpha arch: Cleanup read_barrier_depends() and comments 2014-12-11 21:15:05 -05:00
arc Minor updates for ARC for 3.19 2014-12-18 16:26:41 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2015-01-11 12:44:10 -08:00
arm64 arm64: drop unnecessary cache+tlb maintenance 2015-01-28 14:26:48 +00:00
avr32
blackfin arch/blackfin/mach-bf533/boards/stamp.c: add linux/delay.h 2015-01-08 15:10:52 -08:00
c6x
cris CRISv32: Remove last remnants of ETRAX_SPI_MMC_BOARD 2014-12-20 00:06:13 +01:00
frv
hexagon Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rkuo/linux-hexagon-kernel 2014-12-19 17:57:51 -08:00
ia64 Merge branches 'acpi-pm', 'acpi-processor' and 'acpi-video' 2015-01-06 23:35:43 +01:00
m32r
m68k
metag arch: Add lightweight memory barriers dma_rmb() and dma_wmb() 2014-12-11 21:15:06 -05:00
microblaze Microblaze patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-17 09:54:05 -08:00
mips kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE 2014-12-20 16:48:59 -08:00
mn10300
nios2 nios2: Use preempt_schedule_irq 2014-12-31 11:04:58 +08:00
openrisc
parisc Merge branch 'parisc-3.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2014-12-26 13:41:05 -08:00
powerpc Revert "powerpc: Secondary CPUs must set cpu_callin_map after setting active and online" 2014-12-29 15:51:51 +11:00
s390 kernel: Provide READ_ONCE and ASSIGN_ONCE 2014-12-20 16:48:59 -08:00
score
sh PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME 2014-12-19 22:55:06 +01:00
sparc sparc32: destroy_context() and switch_mm() needs to disable interrupts. 2014-12-18 12:47:54 -05:00
tile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2014-12-16 13:54:16 -08:00
um um: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test 2015-01-04 14:20:26 +01:00
unicore32
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-01-11 11:53:46 -08:00
xtensa Xtensa fixes for 3.19: 2014-12-16 14:08:53 -08:00
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