Le 08/04/2021 à 10:50, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> writes:

flush_coherent_icache() can use any valid address as mentionned
by the comment.

Use PAGE_OFFSET as base address. This allows removing the
user access stuff.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu>
---
  arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 13 +++++--------
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index ce6c81ce4362..19f807b87697 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -342,10 +342,9 @@ void free_initmem(void)
/**
   * flush_coherent_icache() - if a CPU has a coherent icache, flush it
- * @addr: The base address to use (can be any valid address, the whole cache 
will be flushed)
   * Return true if the cache was flushed, false otherwise
   */
-static inline bool flush_coherent_icache(unsigned long addr)
+static inline bool flush_coherent_icache(void)
  {
        /*
         * For a snooping icache, we still need a dummy icbi to purge all the
@@ -355,9 +354,7 @@ static inline bool flush_coherent_icache(unsigned long addr)
         */
        if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE)) {
                mb(); /* sync */
-               allow_read_from_user((const void __user *)addr, L1_CACHE_BYTES);
-               icbi((void *)addr);
-               prevent_read_from_user((const void __user *)addr, 
L1_CACHE_BYTES);
+               icbi((void *)PAGE_OFFSET);
                mb(); /* sync */
                isync();
                return true;

do we need that followup sync? Usermanual suggest sync; icbi(any address);
isync sequence.

I don't know.

The original implementation is here: 
https://github.com/linuxppc/linux/commit/0ce636700

Christophe

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