[PATCH 09/10] arm64: tlb: remove redundant barrier from __flush_tlb_pgtable

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Sep 17 05:50:18 PDT 2015


__flush_tlb_pgtable is used to invalidate intermediate page table
entries after they have been cleared and are about to be freed. Since
pXd_clear imply memory barriers, we don't need the extra one here.

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

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 93e9f964805c..b460ae28e346 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_pgtable(struct mm_struct *mm,
 {
 	unsigned long addr = uaddr >> 12 | (ASID(mm) << 48);
 
-	dsb(ishst);
 	asm("tlbi	vae1is, %0" : : "r" (addr));
 	dsb(ish);
 }
-- 
2.1.4




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