From ee6a7fce8e5ecd90794ad7c9f62518c753fb3cb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:05:52 +0000 Subject: arm64: Remove I-cache invalidation from flush_cache_range() The flush_cache_range() function (similarly for flush_cache_page()) is called when the kernel is changing an existing VA->PA mapping range to either a new PA or to different attributes. Since ARMv8 has PIPT-like D-caches, this function does not need to perform any D-cache maintenance. The I-cache maintenance is already handled via set_pte_at() and flush_cache_range() cannot anyway guarantee that there are no cache lines left after invalidation due to the speculative loads. This patch makes flush_cache_range() a no-op. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- arch/arm64/mm/flush.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/arm64/mm/flush.c') diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c index 2d78d5a9b89f..554a2558c12e 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c @@ -25,13 +25,6 @@ #include #include -void flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, - unsigned long end) -{ - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC) - __flush_icache_all(); -} - void sync_icache_aliases(void *kaddr, unsigned long len) { unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)kaddr; -- cgit v1.2.3