From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Brown Subject: [PATCH 3.10 128/129] arm64: Do not flush the D-cache for anonymous pages Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:39:17 -0800 Message-Id: <20140106223903.256932537@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140106223859.589799655@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140106223859.589799655@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Catalin Marinas commit 7249b79f6b4cc3c2aa9138dca52e535a4c789107 upstream. The D-cache on AArch64 is VIPT non-aliasing, so there is no need to flush it for anonymous pages. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Reported-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Will Deacon Cc: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arm64/mm/flush.c | 8 +++----- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 1 - 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c @@ -77,14 +77,12 @@ void __flush_dcache_page(struct page *pa void __sync_icache_dcache(pte_t pte, unsigned long addr) { - unsigned long pfn; - struct page *page; + struct page *page = pte_page(pte); - pfn = pte_pfn(pte); - if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) + /* no flushing needed for anonymous pages */ + if (!page_mapping(page)) return; - page = pfn_to_page(pfn); if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags)) { __flush_dcache_page(page); __flush_icache_all(); --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c @@ -339,7 +339,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void) bootmem_init(); empty_zero_page = virt_to_page(zero_page); - __flush_dcache_page(empty_zero_page); /* * TTBR0 is only used for the identity mapping at this stage. Make it