[PATCH] arm64: mm: Make icache synchronisation logic huge page aware

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jul 2 03:50:14 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:46:23AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> The __sync_icache_dcache routine will only flush the dcache for the
> first page of a compound page, potentially leading to stale icache
> data residing further on in a hugetlb page.
> 
> This patch addresses this issue by taking into consideration the
> order of the page when flushing the dcache.
> 
> Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>

  Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Will

> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/flush.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
> index e4193e3..0d64089 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pte, unsigned long addr)
>  		return;
>  
>  	if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags)) {
> -		__flush_dcache_area(page_address(page), PAGE_SIZE);
> +		__flush_dcache_area(page_address(page),
> +				PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(page));
>  		__flush_icache_all();
>  	} else if (icache_is_aivivt()) {
>  		__flush_icache_all();
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 
> 



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