[PATCH] ARM: tlb: perform branch predictor maintenance for whole invalidation

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jan 30 09:12:05 EST 2013


The ARM architecture requires explicit branch predictor maintenance
when updating an instruction stream for a given virtual address. In
reality, this isn't so much of a burden because the branch predictor
is flushed during the cache maintenance required to make the new
instructions visible to the I-side of the processor.

One exception to this rule is when we flush the entire TLB for a CPU in
response to something other than writing new instructions (for example,
ASID rollover or switching to an identity mapping before disabling the
MMU).

This patch ensures that we flush the branch predictor as part of
invalidating the entire TLB.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 6e924d3..713ff32 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #define TLB_V7_UIS_PAGE	(1 << 19)
 #define TLB_V7_UIS_FULL (1 << 20)
 #define TLB_V7_UIS_ASID (1 << 21)
+#define TLB_V7_UIS_BP	(1 << 22)
 
 #define TLB_BARRIER	(1 << 28)
 #define TLB_L2CLEAN_FR	(1 << 29)		/* Feroceon */
@@ -166,9 +167,11 @@
 #endif
 
 #define v7wbi_tlb_flags_smp	(TLB_WB | TLB_DCLEAN | TLB_BARRIER | \
-			 TLB_V7_UIS_FULL | TLB_V7_UIS_PAGE | TLB_V7_UIS_ASID)
+				 TLB_V7_UIS_FULL | TLB_V7_UIS_PAGE | \
+				 TLB_V7_UIS_ASID | TLB_V7_UIS_BP)
 #define v7wbi_tlb_flags_up	(TLB_WB | TLB_DCLEAN | TLB_BARRIER | \
-			 TLB_V6_U_FULL | TLB_V6_U_PAGE | TLB_V6_U_ASID)
+				 TLB_V6_U_FULL | TLB_V6_U_PAGE | \
+				 TLB_V6_U_ASID)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_TLB_V7
 
@@ -330,6 +333,11 @@ static inline void local_flush_tlb_all(void)
 	tlb_op(TLB_V4_I_FULL | TLB_V6_I_FULL, "c8, c5, 0", zero);
 	tlb_op(TLB_V7_UIS_FULL, "c8, c3, 0", zero);
 
+	if (tlb_flag(TLB_V7_UIS_BP))
+		asm("mcr p15, 0, %0, c7, c1, 6" : : "r" (zero));
+	else
+		asm("mcr p15, 0, %0, c7, c5, 6" : : "r" (zero));
+
 	if (tlb_flag(TLB_BARRIER)) {
 		dsb();
 		isb();
-- 
1.8.0




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