[PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf, arm64: Remove redundant bpf_flush_icache() after pack allocator finalize

[Puranjay Mohan]

bpf_flush_icache() calls flush_icache_range() to clean the data cache
and invalidate the instruction cache for the JITed code region. However,
since commit 1dad391daef1 ("bpf, arm64: use bpf_prog_pack for memory
management"), this flush is redundant.

bpf_jit_binary_pack_finalize() copies the JITed instructions to the ROX
region via bpf_arch_text_copy() -> aarch64_insn_copy() -> __text_poke(),
and __text_poke() already calls flush_icache_range() on the written
range. The subsequent bpf_flush_icache() repeats the same cache
maintenance on an overlapping range, including an unnecessary second
synchronous IPI to all CPUs via kick_all_cpus_sync().

Remove the redundant bpf_flush_icache() call and its now-unused
definition.

Fixes: 1dad391daef1 ("bpf, arm64: use bpf_prog_pack for memory management")
Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index adf84962d579..e88b0917adec 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -1961,11 +1961,6 @@ static int validate_ctx(struct jit_ctx *ctx)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static inline void bpf_flush_icache(void *start, void *end)
-{
-	flush_icache_range((unsigned long)start, (unsigned long)end);
-}
-
 static void priv_stack_init_guard(void __percpu *priv_stack_ptr, int alloc_size)
 {
 	int cpu, underflow_idx = (alloc_size - PRIV_STACK_GUARD_SZ) >> 3;
@@ -2204,12 +2199,6 @@ struct bpf_prog *bpf_int_jit_compile(struct bpf_prog *prog)
 			prog = orig_prog;
 			goto out_off;
 		}
-		/*
-		 * The instructions have now been copied to the ROX region from
-		 * where they will execute. Now the data cache has to be cleaned to
-		 * the PoU and the I-cache has to be invalidated for the VAs.
-		 */
-		bpf_flush_icache(ro_header, ctx.ro_image + ctx.idx);
 	} else {
 		jit_data->ctx = ctx;
 		jit_data->ro_image = ro_image_ptr;
-- 
2.52.0