[PATCH 0/4] ARM: mmu: ensure PTE is written at once
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Wed May 21 10:41:00 PDT 2025
Writing the PTE with a normal non-volatile access is a bad idea, because
speculation may already use a partially written entry.
Use WRITE_ONCE to turn this into a volatile write via a new set_pte
helper. The extra helper is useful for type enforcement and for future
extension when we start to consistently apply break-before-make[1].
Ahmad Fatoum (4):
arch: sync READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE with Linux
ARM64: mmu: document granule size calculation
ARM: mmu: ensure PTE is written at once
WIP: break before make and don't invalidate uncached regions being
remapped
Documentation/devel/porting.rst | 2 +
arch/arm/cpu/mmu_32.c | 247 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.c | 38 ++++-
arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h | 8 +
arch/kvx/include/asm/barrier.h | 2 +
arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h | 8 +
arch/openrisc/include/asm/barrier.h | 8 +
arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h | 8 +
arch/sandbox/include/asm/barrier.h | 8 +
arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h | 8 +
include/asm-generic/barrier.h | 24 +++
include/asm-generic/rwonce.h | 87 ++++++++++
include/linux/bitops.h | 2 +-
include/linux/compiler.h | 94 -----------
include/linux/compiler_types.h | 46 ++++++
include/linux/list.h | 1 +
16 files changed, 449 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/barrier.h
create mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h
create mode 100644 arch/openrisc/include/asm/barrier.h
create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/barrier.h
create mode 100644 arch/sandbox/include/asm/barrier.h
create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/barrier.h
create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/rwonce.h
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