[PATCH 16/18] arm64: kexec: remove the pre-kexec PoC maintenance

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Thu May 27 2021 - 11:07:47 EST


Now that kexec does its relocations with the MMU enabled, we no longer
need to clean the relocation data to the PoC.

Co-developed-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 40 -------------------------------
1 file changed, 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 96a478d022b6..afbde4bb1829 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -76,45 +76,6 @@ int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *kimage)
return 0;
}

-/**
- * kexec_list_flush - Helper to flush the kimage list and source pages to PoC.
- */
-static void kexec_list_flush(struct kimage *kimage)
-{
- kimage_entry_t *entry;
-
- __flush_dcache_area(kimage, sizeof(*kimage));
-
- for (entry = &kimage->head; ; entry++) {
- unsigned int flag;
- void *addr;
-
- /* flush the list entries. */
- __flush_dcache_area(entry, sizeof(kimage_entry_t));
-
- flag = *entry & IND_FLAGS;
- if (flag == IND_DONE)
- break;
-
- addr = phys_to_virt(*entry & PAGE_MASK);
-
- switch (flag) {
- case IND_INDIRECTION:
- /* Set entry point just before the new list page. */
- entry = (kimage_entry_t *)addr - 1;
- break;
- case IND_SOURCE:
- /* flush the source pages. */
- __flush_dcache_area(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
- break;
- case IND_DESTINATION:
- break;
- default:
- BUG();
- }
- }
-}
-
/**
* kexec_segment_flush - Helper to flush the kimage segments to PoC.
*/
@@ -200,7 +161,6 @@ int machine_kexec_post_load(struct kimage *kimage)
__flush_dcache_area(reloc_code, reloc_size);
flush_icache_range((uintptr_t)reloc_code, (uintptr_t)reloc_code +
reloc_size);
- kexec_list_flush(kimage);
kexec_image_info(kimage);

return 0;
--
2.25.1