[PATCH bpf-next v2 1/2] bpf, arm64: Remove redundant bpf_flush_icache() after pack allocator finalize

Puranjay Mohan
2026-04-13T19:11:34Z

bpf_flush_icache() calls flush_icache_range() to clean the data cache
and invalidate the instruction cache for the JITed code region. However,
since commit 1dad391daef1 ("bpf, arm64: use bpf_prog_pack for memory
management"), this flush is redundant.

bpf_jit_binary_pack_finalize() copies the JITed instructions to the ROX
region via bpf_arch_text_copy() -> aarch64_insn_copy() -> __text_poke(),
and __text_poke() already calls flush_icache_range() on the written
range. The subsequent bpf_flush_icache() repeats the same cache
maintenance on an overlapping range, including an unnecessary second
synchronous IPI to all CPUs via kick_all_cpus_sync().

Remove the redundant bpf_flush_icache() call and its now-unused
definition.

Fixes: 1dad391daef1 ("bpf, arm64: use bpf_prog_pack for memory management")
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index adf84962d579..7417d24a5b6f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@

#include <asm/asm-extable.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
-#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/cpufeature.h>
#include <asm/debug-monitors.h>
#include <asm/insn.h>
@@ -1961,11 +1960,6 @@ static int validate_ctx(struct jit_ctx *ctx)
return 0;
}

-static inline void bpf_flush_icache(void *start, void *end)
-{
- flush_icache_range((unsigned long)start, (unsigned long)end);
-}
-
static void priv_stack_init_guard(void __percpu *priv_stack_ptr, int alloc_size)
{
int cpu, underflow_idx = (alloc_size - PRIV_STACK_GUARD_SZ) >> 3;
@@ -2204,12 +2198,6 @@ struct bpf_prog *bpf_int_jit_compile(struct bpf_prog *prog)
prog = orig_prog;
goto out_off;
}
- /*
- * The instructions have now been copied to the ROX region from
- * where they will execute. Now the data cache has to be cleaned to
- * the PoU and the I-cache has to be invalidated for the VAs.
- */
- bpf_flush_icache(ro_header, ctx.ro_image + ctx.idx);
} else {
jit_data->ctx = ctx;
jit_data->ro_image = ro_image_ptr;
--
2.52.0