[PATCH v3 0/3] arm64: tlb: add support for TLBI RANGE instructions

From: Zhenyu Ye
Date: Wed Jul 15 2020 - 03:20:05 EST


NOTICE: this series are based on the arm64 for-next/tlbi branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-next/tlbi

ARMv8.4-TLBI provides TLBI invalidation instruction that apply to a
range of input addresses. This series add support for this feature.

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ChangeList:
v3:
- add check on whether binutils supports ARMv8.4-a instructions.
- pass -march=armv8.4-a to KBUILD_CFLAGS.
- make __TLBI_RANGE_PAGES to be 'unsigned long' explicitly.

v2:
- remove the __tlbi_last_level() macro.
- add check for parameters in __TLBI_VADDR_RANGE macro.

RFC patches:
- Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20200708124031.1414-1-yezhenyu2@xxxxxxxxxx/


Zhenyu Ye (3):
arm64: tlb: Detect the ARMv8.4 TLBI RANGE feature
arm64: enable tlbi range instructions
arm64: tlb: Use the TLBI RANGE feature in arm64

arch/arm64/Kconfig | 14 +++
arch/arm64/Makefile | 7 ++
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h | 3 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 3 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 10 ++
6 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

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