[PATCH v4 3/4] arm64: Use __tlbi() macros in KVM code
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Feb 1 09:08:52 PST 2017
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 05:02:43PM +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:39:43PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:52:31AM -0500, Christopher Covington wrote:
> >> > Refactor the KVM code to use the __tlbi macros, which will allow an errata
> >> > workaround that repeats tlbi dsb sequences to only change one location.
> >> > This is not intended to change the generated assembly and comparing before
> >> > and after vmlinux objdump shows no functional changes.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov at codeaurora.org>
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> >
> > Thanks, I'll queue this one via arm64.
>
> I just noticed this patch but there's been a similar patch from Mark
> that I've been carrying as part of the KVM TLB monitoring series[0].
>
> [0] http://www.mail-archive.com/kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu/msg09359.html
Well I've already queued the one from Christopher. It's weird that Mark's
version appears to miss the local VMID case (but it does have the
flush_icache_all I wanted :).
Anyway, I'm not reverting anything, so you'll need to rebase when this
lot lands in mainline.
Will
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