[PATCH 0/2] arm{,64}/kvm: excise redundant cache maintenance

[Christoffer Dall]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:00:20PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 05:05:54PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > As noted in a jailhouse thread a short while ago [1,2], the presence of the
> > virtualization extensions implies that page table walks are coherent, and do
> > not require that updates are cleaned to the PoU.
> > 
> > These patches remove the redundant maintenance and related infrastructure.
> > 
> > As I do not have a suitably configured ARMv7 board, I have not been able to
> > test the patches myself, and any testing would be appreciated.
> 
> Having been lent a TC2 booting in Hyp mode, I've now given this a spin
> with a few VMs, which I left running hackbench to fault in guest memory.
> 
> All of that ran happily.
> 
I've tested this on TC2 and CubieTruck as well, no problems as far as I
can see.

Applied.

Thanks,
-Christoffer