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Commit 4150e50b authored by Catalin Marinas's avatar Catalin Marinas Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64: Use last level TLBI for user pte changes



The flush_tlb_page() function is used on user address ranges when PTEs
(or PMDs/PUDs for huge pages) were changed (attributes or clearing). For
such cases, it is more efficient to invalidate only the last level of
the TLB with the "tlbi vale1is" instruction.

In the TLB shoot-down case, the TLB caching of the intermediate page
table levels (pmd, pud, pgd) is handled by __flush_tlb_pgtable() via the
__(pte|pmd|pud)_free_tlb() functions and it is not deferred to
tlb_finish_mmu() (as of commit 285994a6 - "arm64: Invalidate the TLB
corresponding to intermediate page table levels"). The tlb_flush()
function only needs to invalidate the TLB for the last level of page
tables; the __flush_tlb_range() function gains a fourth argument for
last level TLBI.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
parent da4e7330
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