Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: errata: Workaround possible Cortex-A715 [ESR|FAR]_ELx corruption

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Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date
2022-11-09 19:18:54
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Anshuman Khandual, 2022-10-27
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 08:09:15AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_MODIFY_PROT_TRANSACTION
+static inline pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					   unsigned long addr,
+					   pte_t *ptep)
+{
+	pte_t pte = ptep_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep);
 
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_2645198)) {
+		/*
+		 * Break-before-make (BBM) is required for all user space mappings
+		 * when the permission changes from executable to non-executable
+		 * in cases where cpu is affected with errata #2645198.
+		 */
+		if (pte_user_exec(pte) && cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_2645198))
+			__flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, false, 3);
Why not flush_tlb_page() here?

But more importantly, can we not use ptep_clear_flush() instead (and
huge_ptep_clear_flush())? They return the pte and do the TLBI.

-- 
Catalin

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