[PATCH 2/2] arm64: mm: don't bother invalidating the icache in switch_mm

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Jun 6 06:54:46 EDT 2013


We don't support software broadcast of cache maintenance operations, so
this flush is not required (__sync_icache_dcache will always affect all
CPUs).

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index e2bc385..a9eee33 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -151,12 +151,6 @@ switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 {
 	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-	/* check for possible thread migration */
-	if (!cpumask_empty(mm_cpumask(next)) &&
-	    !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next)))
-		__flush_icache_all();
-#endif
 	if (!cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next)) || prev != next)
 		check_and_switch_context(next, tsk);
 }
-- 
1.8.2.2




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