[PATCH v2 6/6] KVM: arm/arm64: Remove unnecessary CMOs when creating HYP page tables
From: Christoffer Dall <hidden>
Date: 2018-06-09 09:58:06
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kvm, kvmarm
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 01:47:06PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
There is no need to perform cache maintenance operations when creating the HYP page tables if we have the multiprocessing extensions. ARMv7 mandates them with the virtualization support, and ARMv8 just mandates them unconditionally. Let's remove these operations. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <redacted>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c index ad1980d2118a..ccdf544d44c0 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c@@ -607,7 +607,6 @@ static void create_hyp_pte_mappings(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr); kvm_set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, prot)); get_page(virt_to_page(pte)); - kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pte, sizeof(*pte)); pfn++; } while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); }@@ -634,7 +633,6 @@ static int create_hyp_pmd_mappings(pud_t *pud, unsigned long start, } kvm_pmd_populate(pmd, pte); get_page(virt_to_page(pmd)); - kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pmd, sizeof(*pmd)); } next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);@@ -667,7 +665,6 @@ static int create_hyp_pud_mappings(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long start, } kvm_pud_populate(pud, pmd); get_page(virt_to_page(pud)); - kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pud, sizeof(*pud)); } next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);@@ -704,7 +701,6 @@ static int __create_hyp_mappings(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long ptrs_per_pgd, } kvm_pgd_populate(pgd, pud); get_page(virt_to_page(pgd)); - kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pgd, sizeof(*pgd)); } next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);-- 2.17.1