Commit 0a72a5ab authored by Marc Zyngier's avatar Marc Zyngier
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KVM: arm/arm64: Remove unnecessary CMOs when creating HYP page tables 



There is no need to perform cache maintenance operations when
creating the HYP page tables if we have the multiprocessing
extensions. ARMv7 mandates them with the virtualization support,
and ARMv8 just mandates them unconditionally.

Let's remove these operations.

Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
parent 0db9dd8a

virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c

+0 −4
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -609,7 +609,6 @@ static void create_hyp_pte_mappings(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, 
		pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);

		kvm_set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, prot));

		get_page(virt_to_page(pte));

		kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pte, sizeof(*pte));

		pfn++;

	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);

}
@@ -636,7 +635,6 @@ static int create_hyp_pmd_mappings(pud_t *pud, unsigned long start, 
			}

			kvm_pmd_populate(pmd, pte);

			get_page(virt_to_page(pmd));

			kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pmd, sizeof(*pmd));

		}



		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
@@ -669,7 +667,6 @@ static int create_hyp_pud_mappings(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long start, 
			}

			kvm_pud_populate(pud, pmd);

			get_page(virt_to_page(pud));

			kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pud, sizeof(*pud));

		}



		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
@@ -706,7 +703,6 @@ static int __create_hyp_mappings(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long ptrs_per_pgd, 
			}

			kvm_pgd_populate(pgd, pud);

			get_page(virt_to_page(pgd));

			kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pgd, sizeof(*pgd));

		}



		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);

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