[PATCH 3/6] arm64: smp: remove pointless secondary_data maintenance
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu May 20 04:50:28 PDT 2021
All reads and writes of secondary_data occur with the MMU on, using
coherent attributes, so there's no need to perform any cache maintenance
for this.
There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index dcd7041b2b07..92e83e8bac94 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
secondary_data.task = idle;
secondary_data.stack = task_stack_page(idle) + THREAD_SIZE;
update_cpu_boot_status(CPU_MMU_OFF);
- __flush_dcache_area(&secondary_data, sizeof(secondary_data));
/* Now bring the CPU into our world */
ret = boot_secondary(cpu, idle);
@@ -143,7 +142,6 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
pr_crit("CPU%u: failed to come online\n", cpu);
secondary_data.task = NULL;
secondary_data.stack = NULL;
- __flush_dcache_area(&secondary_data, sizeof(secondary_data));
status = READ_ONCE(secondary_data.status);
if (status == CPU_MMU_OFF)
status = READ_ONCE(__early_cpu_boot_status);
--
2.11.0
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