KVM_MEM_UNCACHED memory will no longer need caches to be flushed
for memory as it's faulted in. Just use READONLY directly, in that
case, now.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 19 +++++++++----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index 719931e83c468..59af5ad779eb6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1260,7 +1260,15 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
if (!hugetlb && !force_pte)
hugetlb = transparent_hugepage_adjust(&pfn, &fault_ipa);
- fault_ipa_uncached = memslot->flags & KVM_MEM_UNCACHED;
+ /*
+ * Readonly memslots are not incoherent with the caches by definition,
+ * but in practice, they are used mostly to emulate ROMs or NOR flashes
+ * that the guest may consider devices and hence map as uncached.
+ * To prevent incoherency issues in these cases, force dcache flushes
+ * for all pages in the region as they're faulted in.
+ */
+ fault_ipa_uncached = (memslot->flags & KVM_MEM_READONLY) &&
+ !(memslot->flags & KVM_MEM_UNCACHED);
if (hugetlb) {
pmd_t new_pmd = pfn_pmd(pfn, mem_type);
@@ -1784,15 +1792,6 @@ void kvm_arch_free_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *free,
int kvm_arch_create_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
unsigned long npages)
{
- /*
- * Readonly memslots are not incoherent with the caches by definition,
- * but in practice, they are used mostly to emulate ROMs or NOR flashes
- * that the guest may consider devices and hence map as uncached.
- * To prevent incoherency issues in these cases, tag all readonly
- * regions as incoherent.
- */
- if (slot->flags & KVM_MEM_READONLY)
- slot->flags |= KVM_MEM_UNCACHED;
return 0;
}
--
1.8.3.1
_______________________________________________
kvmarm mailing list
kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
