[PATCH v2 5/8] KVM: arm/arm64: Only clean the dcache on translation fault
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Oct 20 08:49:01 PDT 2017
The only case where we actually need to perform a dcache maintenance
is when we map the page for the first time, and subsequent permission
faults do not require cache maintenance. Let's make it conditional
on not being a permission fault (and thus a translation fault).
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
index 0417c8e2a81c..f956efbd933d 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
@@ -1400,7 +1400,9 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkwrite(new_pmd);
kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
}
- clean_dcache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PMD_SIZE);
+
+ if (fault_status != FSC_PERM)
+ clean_dcache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PMD_SIZE);
if (exec_fault) {
new_pmd = kvm_s2pmd_mkexec(new_pmd);
@@ -1416,7 +1418,9 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
}
- clean_dcache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ if (fault_status != FSC_PERM)
+ clean_dcache_guest_page(vcpu, pfn, PAGE_SIZE);
if (exec_fault) {
new_pte = kvm_s2pte_mkexec(new_pte);
--
2.14.1
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