Commit 32d63978 authored Dec 10, 2015 by Will Deacon

arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker



In paging_init, we allocate the zero page, memset it to zero and then
point TTBR0 to it in order to avoid speculative fetches through the
identity mapping.

In order to guarantee that the freshly zeroed page is indeed visible to
the page table walker, we need to execute a dsb instruction prior to
writing the TTBR.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.14+, for older kernels need to drop the 'ishst'
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

parent 9cb9c9e5

arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -464,6 +464,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void)

		empty_zero_page = virt_to_page(zero_page);

		/* Ensure the zero page is visible to the page table walker */
		dsb(ishst);

		/*
		* TTBR0 is only used for the identity mapping at this stage. Make it
		* point to zero page to avoid speculatively fetching new entries.

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