[PATCH] arm64: hibernate: reduce TLB maintenance scope

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Aug 8 03:12:07 PDT 2016


In break_before_make_ttbr_switch we perform broadcast TLB maintenance
for the inner shareable domain, and use a DSB ISH to complete this.
However, at the point we execute this, secondary CPUs are either
physically offline, or executing code outside of the kernel. Upon
entering the kernel, secondary CPUs will invalidate their TLBs before
enabling their MMUs.

Thus we do not need to invalidate TLBs of other CPUs, and as with
idmap_cpu_replace_ttbr1 we can reduce the scope of maintenance to the
TLBs of the local CPU. This keeps our TLB maintenance code consistent,
and is a minor optimisation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate-asm.S | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate-asm.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate-asm.S
index 46f29b6..7734f3e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate-asm.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate-asm.S
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
 .macro break_before_make_ttbr_switch zero_page, page_table
 	msr	ttbr1_el1, \zero_page
 	isb
-	tlbi	vmalle1is
-	dsb	ish
+	tlbi	vmalle1
+	dsb	nsh
 	msr	ttbr1_el1, \page_table
 	isb
 .endm
-- 
1.9.1




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