[PATCH 7.1 1416/2077] arm64/mm: Optimize TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_[pmd|pud]_range()

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jul 21 08:18:09 PDT 2026


7.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>

[ Upstream commit ff4c5a0de1f2ef7737a8688a86e19301e567020d ]

Commit 48478b9f7913 ("arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in
unmap_hotplug_range") inadvertently introduced redundant TLB
invalidation when clearing a block entry, resulting in unnecessary
broadcast invalidation on CPUs without support for range-based
invalidation.

Re-introduce the old behaviour, along with some expanded comments to
help people working in this area next time around.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b0d5836032ce3135bfc473f6bff791306d086925.camel@decadent.org.uk/
Fixes: 48478b9f7913 ("arm64/mm: Enable batched TLB flush in unmap_hotplug_range()")
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
[will: Reword comments and commit message]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 8242f93f05e4fc..fd756390fe925c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1509,7 +1509,13 @@ static void unmap_hotplug_pmd_range(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr,
 			if (free_mapped) {
 				/* CONT blocks are not supported in the vmemmap */
 				WARN_ON(pmd_cont(pmd));
-				flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PMD_SIZE);
+				/*
+				 * Invalidating a block entry requires just
+				 * a single overlapping TLB invalidation,
+				 * so limit the range of the flush to a single
+				 * page.
+				 */
+				flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
 				free_hotplug_page_range(pmd_page(pmd),
 							PMD_SIZE, altmap);
 			}
@@ -1539,7 +1545,8 @@ static void unmap_hotplug_pud_range(p4d_t *p4dp, unsigned long addr,
 		if (pud_leaf(pud)) {
 			pud_clear(pudp);
 			if (free_mapped) {
-				flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PUD_SIZE);
+				/* See comment in unmap_hotplug_pmd_range(). */
+				flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
 				free_hotplug_page_range(pud_page(pud),
 							PUD_SIZE, altmap);
 			}
-- 
2.53.0






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