[PATCH 3.10 128/129] arm64: Do not flush the D-cache for anonymous pages

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jan 06 2014 - 18:00:41 EST


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

------------------

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>

commit 7249b79f6b4cc3c2aa9138dca52e535a4c789107 upstream.

The D-cache on AArch64 is VIPT non-aliasing, so there is no need to
flush it for anonymous pages.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/arm64/mm/flush.c | 8 +++-----
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
@@ -77,14 +77,12 @@ void __flush_dcache_page(struct page *pa

void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pte, unsigned long addr)
{
- unsigned long pfn;
- struct page *page;
+ struct page *page = pte_page(pte);

- pfn = pte_pfn(pte);
- if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
+ /* no flushing needed for anonymous pages */
+ if (!page_mapping(page))
return;

- page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags)) {
__flush_dcache_page(page);
__flush_icache_all();
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -339,7 +339,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
bootmem_init();

empty_zero_page = virt_to_page(zero_page);
- __flush_dcache_page(empty_zero_page);

/*
* TTBR0 is only used for the identity mapping at this stage. Make it


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