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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2018-01-29 11:59:54 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2018-02-06 22:53:16 +0000
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parent41acec624087b1268a15f414cf7d573deebafeec (diff)
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arm64: mm: Permit transitioning from Global to Non-Global without BBM
Break-before-make is not needed when transitioning from Global to Non-Global mappings, provided that the contiguous hint is not being used. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index b44992ec9643..fc7902bda02b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ static bool pgattr_change_is_safe(u64 old, u64 new)
if ((old | new) & PTE_CONT)
return false;
+ /* Transitioning from Global to Non-Global is safe */
+ if (((old ^ new) == PTE_NG) && (new & PTE_NG))
+ return true;
+
return ((old ^ new) & ~mask) == 0;
}
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