Re: [PATCH 2/4] arm64: KVM: Avoid marking pages as XN in Stage-2 if CTR_EL0.DIC is set

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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:35:46AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On systems where CTR_EL0.DIC is set, we don't need to perform
> icache invalidation to guarantee that we'll fetch the right
> instruction stream.
> 
> This also means that taking a permission fault to invalidate the
> icache is an unnecessary overhead.
> 
> On such systems, we can safely leave the page as being executable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
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