There is no need to perform cache maintenance operations when creating the HYP page tables if we have the multiprocessing extensions. ARMv7 mandates them with the virtualization support, and ARMv8 just mandates them unconditionally.
Let's remove these operations. Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> --- virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c index eade30caaa3c..97d27cd9c654 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c @@ -609,7 +609,6 @@ static void create_hyp_pte_mappings(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start, pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr); kvm_set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, prot)); get_page(virt_to_page(pte)); - kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pte, sizeof(*pte)); pfn++; } while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); } @@ -636,7 +635,6 @@ static int create_hyp_pmd_mappings(pud_t *pud, unsigned long start, } kvm_pmd_populate(pmd, pte); get_page(virt_to_page(pmd)); - kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pmd, sizeof(*pmd)); } next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); @@ -669,7 +667,6 @@ static int create_hyp_pud_mappings(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long start, } kvm_pud_populate(pud, pmd); get_page(virt_to_page(pud)); - kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pud, sizeof(*pud)); } next = pud_addr_end(addr, end); @@ -706,7 +703,6 @@ static int __create_hyp_mappings(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long ptrs_per_pgd, } kvm_pgd_populate(pgd, pud); get_page(virt_to_page(pgd)); - kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pgd, sizeof(*pgd)); } next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end); -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
