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arm64: mm: Avoid TLBI when marking pages as valid
authorSteven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:14:31 +0000 (14:14 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:19:33 +0000 (10:19 +0100)
When __change_memory_common() is purely setting the valid bit on a PTE
(e.g. via the set_memory_valid() call) there is no need for a TLBI as
either the entry isn't changing (the valid bit was already set) or the
entry was invalid and so should not have been cached in the TLB.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241017131434.40935-9-steven.price@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c

index 0e270a1c51e6450f64cf30d2b357dc4a5472add1..547a9e0b46c213459efbcfd4c5f248c942e220ee 100644 (file)
@@ -60,7 +60,13 @@ static int __change_memory_common(unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
        ret = apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, start, size, change_page_range,
                                        &data);
 
-       flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, start + size);
+       /*
+        * If the memory is being made valid without changing any other bits
+        * then a TLBI isn't required as a non-valid entry cannot be cached in
+        * the TLB.
+        */
+       if (pgprot_val(set_mask) != PTE_VALID || pgprot_val(clear_mask))
+               flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, start + size);
        return ret;
 }