[PATCH] arm64: mm: remove stale comment

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Nov 20 09:33:50 PST 2017


On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:26:29PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Since commit:
> 
>   155433cb365ee466 ("arm64: cache: Remove support for ASID-tagged VIVT I-caches")
> 
> ... the ASID rollover code no longer performs I-cache maintenance, yet a
> leftover comment says it does. The comment doesn't say anything that
> can't be inferred from the next line, so let's remove it entirely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/context.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/context.c b/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
> index ab9f5f0fb2c7..b48ec1e18184 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
> @@ -117,7 +117,6 @@ static void flush_context(unsigned int cpu)
>  		per_cpu(reserved_asids, i) = asid;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* Queue a TLB invalidate and flush the I-cache if necessary. */
>  	cpumask_setall(&tlb_flush_pending);

Given that we don't normally do TLB invalidation by setting a flag, I'd
be inclined to say something like

	/*
	 * Queue a TLB invalidation for each CPU to perform on next
	 * context-switch.
	 */

Also, if you're bored, there's a comment in asm/cacheflush.h talking about
ASID-tagged I-cache too.

Will



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