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authorArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>2018-12-13 14:04:56 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>2019-02-01 21:44:05 +0000
commit9ec5cd0a40f2e7834ddd55708e8def18f0940244 (patch)
treec729517ec0e04b3ab59172e26f8e6c540e24a117 /arch/arm
parentbfeffd155283772bbe78c6a05dec7c0128ee500c (diff)
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ARM: 8817/1: mm: skip cleaning of idmap page tables on LPAE capable cores
Currently, init_static_idmap() installs some page table entries to cover the identity mapped part of the kernel image (which is only about 160 bytes in size in a multi_v7_defconfig Thumb2 build), and calls flush_cache_louis() to ensure that the updates are visible to the page table walker on the same core. When running under virtualization, flush_cache_louis() may take more than 10 seconds to complete: [ 0.108192] Setting up static identity map for 0x40300000 - 0x403000a0 [ 13.078127] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation. This is due to the fact that set/way ops are not virtualizable, and so KVM may trap each one, resulting in a substantial delay. Since only LPAE capable CPUs may execute under virtualization, and considering that LPAE capable CPUs are guaranteed to have cache coherent page table walkers (per the architecture), let's only perform this cache maintenance on non-LPAE cores. Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/idmap.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/idmap.c b/arch/arm/mm/idmap.c
index 1d1edd0641995..a033f6134a649 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/idmap.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/idmap.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <asm/cputype.h>
#include <asm/idmap.h>
+#include <asm/hwcap.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
@@ -110,7 +111,8 @@ static int __init init_static_idmap(void)
__idmap_text_end, 0);
/* Flush L1 for the hardware to see this page table content */
- flush_cache_louis();
+ if (!(elf_hwcap & HWCAP_LPAE))
+ flush_cache_louis();
return 0;
}