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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2014-03-12 16:28:09 +0000
committerAlex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>2014-05-29 09:18:32 +0800
commit64fb9c18d5c50ce9698c99925294c55f71f15266 (patch)
tree0512f966f84bfbcfcb0d013c60f6fa3725ffae53
parent455c6fdbd219161bd09b1165f11699d6d73de11c (diff)
arm64: Do not synchronise I and D caches for special ptes
Special pte mappings are not intended to be executable and do not even have an associated struct page. This patch ensures that we do not call __sync_icache_dcache() on such ptes. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com> Tested-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> (cherry picked from upstream commit 71fdb6bf61bf0692f004f9daf5650392c0cfe300) Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index aa3917c8b623..cdfdee7c13ca 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
{
if (pte_valid_user(pte)) {
- if (pte_exec(pte))
+ if (!pte_special(pte) && pte_exec(pte))
__sync_icache_dcache(pte, addr);
if (pte_dirty(pte) && pte_write(pte))
pte_val(pte) &= ~PTE_RDONLY;