[PATCH V2] arm64: tlbflush: avoid writing RES0 bits
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Mar 27 10:36:13 PDT 2018
Hi Shanker,
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 09:53:16AM -0500, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
> On 03/27/2018 06:34 AM, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > On 27/03/18 04:21, Philip Elcan wrote:
> >> Several of the bits of the TLBI register operand are RES0 per the ARM
> >> ARM, so TLBI operations should avoid writing non-zero values to these
> >> bits.
> >>
> >> This patch adds a macro __TLBI_VADDR(addr, asid) that creates the
> >> operand register in the correct format and honors the RES0 bits.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Philip Elcan <pelcan at codeaurora.org>
> >> ---
> >> arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
> >> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> >> index 9e82dd7..b1205e9 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h
> >> @@ -60,6 +60,15 @@
> >> __tlbi(op, (arg) | USER_ASID_FLAG); \
> >> } while (0)
> >> +/* This macro creates a properly formatted VA operand for the TLBI */
> >> +#define __TLBI_VADDR(addr, asid) \
> >> + ({ \
> >> + unsigned long __ta = (addr) >> 12; \
> >> + __ta &= GENMASK_ULL(43, 0); \
> >> + __ta |= (unsigned long)(asid) << 48; \
> >> + __ta; \
> >> + })
> >
> > I'd be inclined to make this a static inline function rather than a
> > macro, since it doesn't need to do any wacky type-dodging, but either
> > way the overall change now looks appropriate;
> >
> > Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
> >
>
> Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd at codeaurora.org>
[...]
> >> @@ -154,8 +163,8 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >> return;
> >> }
> >> - start = asid | (start >> 12);
> >> - end = asid | (end >> 12);
> >> + start = __TLBI_VADDR(start, asid);
> >> + end = __TLBI_VADDR(end, asid);
Can you test this bit too, please? ;)
Will
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