Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: arm/arm64: Remove unnecessary CMOs when creating HYP page tables

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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:35:47AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> There is no need to perform cache maintenance operations when
> creating the HYP page tables if we have the multiprocessing
> extensions. ARMv7 mandates them with the virtualization support,
> and ARMv8 just mandates them unconditionally.
> 
> Let's remove these operations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> index ba66bf7ae299..acbfea09578c 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> @@ -578,7 +578,6 @@ static void create_hyp_pte_mappings(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start,
>  		pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
>  		kvm_set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, prot));
>  		get_page(virt_to_page(pte));
> -		kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pte, sizeof(*pte));
>  		pfn++;
>  	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
>  }
> @@ -605,7 +604,6 @@ static int create_hyp_pmd_mappings(pud_t *pud, unsigned long start,
>  			}
>  			pmd_populate_kernel(NULL, pmd, pte);
>  			get_page(virt_to_page(pmd));
> -			kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pmd, sizeof(*pmd));
>  		}
>  
>  		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
> @@ -638,7 +636,6 @@ static int create_hyp_pud_mappings(pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long start,
>  			}
>  			pud_populate(NULL, pud, pmd);
>  			get_page(virt_to_page(pud));
> -			kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pud, sizeof(*pud));
>  		}
>  
>  		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
> @@ -675,7 +672,6 @@ static int __create_hyp_mappings(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long ptrs_per_pgd,
>  			}
>  			pgd_populate(NULL, pgd, pud);
>  			get_page(virt_to_page(pgd));
> -			kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc(pgd, sizeof(*pgd));
>  		}
>  
>  		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
> @@ -685,6 +681,7 @@ static int __create_hyp_mappings(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long ptrs_per_pgd,
>  		pfn += (next - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	} while (addr = next, addr != end);
>  out:
> +	dsb(ishst);
>  	mutex_unlock(&kvm_hyp_pgd_mutex);

Why do we need the DSB here? A comment would help.

If a DMB is sufficient, I think mutex_unlock has release semantics.

-- 
Catalin



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