[PATCH v3 2/3] arm64: Kill detection of VPIPT i-cache policy

Marc Zyngier
2023-12-04T14:36:19Z

Since the kernel will never run on a system with the VPIPT i-cache
policy, drop the detection code altogether.

Reviewed-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h | 6 ------
arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c | 5 -----
2 files changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
index ceb368d33bf4..06a4670bdb0b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ static inline unsigned int arch_slab_minalign(void)
#define CTR_L1IP(ctr) SYS_FIELD_GET(CTR_EL0, L1Ip, ctr)

#define ICACHEF_ALIASING 0
-#define ICACHEF_VPIPT 1
extern unsigned long __icache_flags;

/*
@@ -70,11 +69,6 @@ static inline int icache_is_aliasing(void)
return test_bit(ICACHEF_ALIASING, &__icache_flags);
}

-static __always_inline int icache_is_vpipt(void)
-{
- return test_bit(ICACHEF_VPIPT, &__icache_flags);
-}
-
static inline u32 cache_type_cwg(void)
{
return SYS_FIELD_GET(CTR_EL0, CWG, read_cpuid_cachetype());
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
index a257da7b56fe..47043c0d95ec 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpuinfo.c
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ static struct cpuinfo_arm64 boot_cpu_data;
static inline const char *icache_policy_str(int l1ip)
{
switch (l1ip) {
- case CTR_EL0_L1Ip_VPIPT:
- return "VPIPT";
case CTR_EL0_L1Ip_VIPT:
return "VIPT";
case CTR_EL0_L1Ip_PIPT:
@@ -388,9 +386,6 @@ static void cpuinfo_detect_icache_policy(struct cpuinfo_arm64 *info)
switch (l1ip) {
case CTR_EL0_L1Ip_PIPT:
break;
- case CTR_EL0_L1Ip_VPIPT:
- set_bit(ICACHEF_VPIPT, &__icache_flags);
- break;
case CTR_EL0_L1Ip_VIPT:
default:
/* Assume aliasing */
--
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