arm64: Do not synchronise I and D caches for special ptes
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:28:09 +0000 (16:28 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 6 May 2014 14:55:26 +0000 (07:55 -0700)
commit 71fdb6bf61bf0692f004f9daf5650392c0cfe300 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h

index e9a1a1d..1569b2b 100644 (file)
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ 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 = pte_wrprotect(pte);