[PATCH v3 06/18] arm64: Do not enable uaccess for invalidate_icache_range

Fuad Tabba tabba at google.com
Thu May 20 05:43:54 PDT 2021


invalidate_icache_range() works on the kernel linear map, and
doesn't need uaccess. Remove the code that toggles
uaccess_ttbr0_enable, as well as the code that emits an entry
into the exception table (via the macro
invalidate_icache_by_line).

Changes return type of invalidate_icache_range() from int (which
used to indicate a fault) to void, since it doesn't need uaccess
and won't fault. Note that return value was never checked by any
of the callers.

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>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/cache.S               | 11 +----------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 52e5c1623224..a586afa84172 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
  *		- size   - region size
  */
 extern void __flush_icache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
-extern int  invalidate_icache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
+extern void invalidate_icache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 extern void __flush_dcache_area(void *addr, size_t len);
 extern void __inval_dcache_area(void *addr, size_t len);
 extern void __clean_dcache_area_poc(void *addr, size_t len);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
index c6bc3b8138e1..7318a40dd6ca 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/cache.S
@@ -97,21 +97,12 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(__flush_cache_user_range)
  */
 SYM_FUNC_START(invalidate_icache_range)
 alternative_if ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC
-	mov	x0, xzr
 	isb
 	ret
 alternative_else_nop_endif
 
-	uaccess_ttbr0_enable x2, x3, x4
-
-	invalidate_icache_by_line x0, x1, x2, x3, 2f
-	mov	x0, xzr
-1:
-	uaccess_ttbr0_disable x1, x2
+	invalidate_icache_by_line x0, x1, x2, x3
 	ret
-2:
-	mov	x0, #-EFAULT
-	b	1b
 SYM_FUNC_END(invalidate_icache_range)
 
 /*
-- 
2.31.1.751.gd2f1c929bd-goog




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