[PATCH v3 05/18] arm64: Do not enable uaccess for flush_icache_range

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu May 20 07:02:16 PDT 2021


On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 01:43:53PM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> __flush_icache_range works on the kernel linear map, and doesn't
> need uaccess. The existing code is a side-effect of its current
> implementation with __flush_cache_user_range fallthrough.
> 
> Instead of fallthrough to share the code, use a common macro for
> the two where the caller specifies an optional fixup label if
> user access is needed. If provided, this label would be used to
> generate an extable entry.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> Possible performance impact due to the reduced number of
> instructions.
> 
> Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Reported-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arch/20200511110014.lb9PEahJ4hVOYrbwIb_qUHXyNy9KQzNFdb_I3YlzY6A@z/
> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>

I have one comment below, but either way this looks good to me, so:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/cache.S | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
> index 5ff8dfa86975..c6bc3b8138e1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
> @@ -14,6 +14,41 @@
>  #include <asm/alternative.h>
>  #include <asm/asm-uaccess.h>
>  
> +/*
> + *	__flush_cache_range(start,end) [fixup]
> + *
> + *	Ensure that the I and D caches are coherent within specified region.
> + *	This is typically used when code has been written to a memory region,
> + *	and will be executed.
> + *
> + *	- start   - virtual start address of region
> + *	- end     - virtual end address of region
> + *	- fixup   - optional label to branch to on user fault
> + */
> +.macro	__flush_cache_range, fixup
> +alternative_if ARM64_HAS_CACHE_IDC
> +	dsb	ishst
> +	b	.Ldc_skip_\@
> +alternative_else_nop_endif
> +	dcache_line_size x2, x3
> +	sub	x3, x2, #1
> +	bic	x4, x0, x3
> +.Ldc_loop_\@:
> +user_alt "dc cvau, x4",  "dc civac, x4",  ARM64_WORKAROUND_CLEAN_CACHE, \fixup
> +	add	x4, x4, x2
> +	cmp	x4, x1
> +	b.lo	.Ldc_loop_\@
> +	dsb	ish

As on the prior patch, I reckon it'd be nicer overall to align with the
*by_line macros and have an explicit _cond_extable here, e.g.

| .Ldc_op\@:
| 	alternative_insn "dc cvau, x4",  "dc civac, x4", ARM64_WORKAROUND_CLEAN_CACHE
| 	add	x4, x4, x2
| 	cmp     x4, x1
| 	b.lo	.Ldc_op\@
| 	dsb	ish
| ...
| 	// just before the .endm
| 	_cond_extable .Ldc_op\@, \fixup

... and with some rework it might be possible to use dcache_by_line_op
directly here (it currently clobbers the base and end, so can't be used
as-is).

Thanks,
Mark.

> +
> +.Ldc_skip_\@:
> +alternative_if ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC
> +	isb
> +	b	.Lic_skip_\@
> +alternative_else_nop_endif
> +	invalidate_icache_by_line x0, x1, x2, x3, \fixup
> +.Lic_skip_\@:
> +.endm
> +
>  /*
>   *	flush_icache_range(start,end)
>   *
> @@ -25,7 +60,9 @@
>   *	- end     - virtual end address of region
>   */
>  SYM_FUNC_START(__flush_icache_range)
> -	/* FALLTHROUGH */
> +	__flush_cache_range
> +	ret
> +SYM_FUNC_END(__flush_icache_range)
>  
>  /*
>   *	__flush_cache_user_range(start,end)
> @@ -39,34 +76,15 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__flush_icache_range)
>   */
>  SYM_FUNC_START(__flush_cache_user_range)
>  	uaccess_ttbr0_enable x2, x3, x4
> -alternative_if ARM64_HAS_CACHE_IDC
> -	dsb	ishst
> -	b	7f
> -alternative_else_nop_endif
> -	dcache_line_size x2, x3
> -	sub	x3, x2, #1
> -	bic	x4, x0, x3
> -1:
> -user_alt "dc cvau, x4",  "dc civac, x4",  ARM64_WORKAROUND_CLEAN_CACHE, 9f
> -	add	x4, x4, x2
> -	cmp	x4, x1
> -	b.lo	1b
> -	dsb	ish
>  
> -7:
> -alternative_if ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC
> -	isb
> -	b	8f
> -alternative_else_nop_endif
> -	invalidate_icache_by_line x0, x1, x2, x3, 9f
> -8:	mov	x0, #0
> +	__flush_cache_range 2f
> +	mov	x0, xzr
>  1:
>  	uaccess_ttbr0_disable x1, x2
>  	ret
> -9:
> +2:
>  	mov	x0, #-EFAULT
>  	b	1b
> -SYM_FUNC_END(__flush_icache_range)
>  SYM_FUNC_END(__flush_cache_user_range)
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.31.1.751.gd2f1c929bd-goog
> 



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