On 22/02/18 16:33, Mark Rutland wrote:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:28:03PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
[Apologies to keep elbowing in, and if I'm being thick here...]
On 22/02/18 15:22, Mark Rutland wrote:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:51:30AM -0600, Shanker Donthineni wrote:
+#define CTR_B31_SHIFT 31
Since this is just a RES1 bit, I think we don't need a mnemonic for it,
but I'll defer to Will and Catalin on that.
ENTRY(invalidate_icache_range)
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SKIP_CACHE_POU
+alternative_if ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC
+ mov x0, xzr
+ dsb ishst
+ isb
+ ret
+alternative_else_nop_endif
+#endif
As commented on v3, I don't believe you need the DSB here. If prior
stores haven't been completed at this point, the existing implementation
would not work correctly here.
True in terms of ordering between stores prior to entry and the IC IVAU
itself, but what about the DSH ISH currently issued *after* the IC IVAU
before returning? Is provably impossible that existing callers might be
relying on that ordering *anything*, or would we risk losing something
subtle by effectively removing it?
AFAIK, the only caller of this is KVM, before page table updates occur
to add execute permissions to the page this is applied to.
At least in that case, I do not beleive there would be breakage.
If we're worried about subtleties in callers, then we'd need to stick
with DSB ISH rather than optimising to DSH ISHST.
Hmm, I probably am just squawking needlessly. It is indeed hard to
imagine how callers could be relying on the invalidating the I-cache for
ordering unless doing something unreasonably stupid, and if the current
caller is clearly OK then there should be nothing to worry about.
This *has* helped me realise that I was indeed being somewhat thick
before, because the existing barrier is of course not about memory
ordering per se, but about completing the maintenance operation. Hooray
for overloaded semantics...
On a different track, I'm now wondering whether the extra complexity of
these alternatives might justify removing some obvious duplication and
letting __flush_cache_user_range() branch directly into
invalidate_icache_range(), or might that adversely affect the user fault
fixup path?
Robin.
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