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[4.19,72/90] riscv: mm: synchronize MMU after pte change

Message ID 20190624092318.729317368@linuxfoundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Greg KH June 24, 2019, 9:57 a.m. UTC 
From: ShihPo Hung <shihpo.hung@sifive.com>

commit bf587caae305ae3b4393077fb22c98478ee55755 upstream.

Because RISC-V compliant implementations can cache invalid entries
in TLB, an SFENCE.VMA is necessary after changes to the page table.
This patch adds an SFENCE.vma for the vmalloc_fault path.

Signed-off-by: ShihPo Hung <shihpo.hung@sifive.com>
[paul.walmsley@sifive.com: reversed tab->whitespace conversion,
 wrapped comment lines]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/riscv/mm/fault.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
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--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ 
 
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
+#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
 /*
  * This routine handles page faults.  It determines the address and the
@@ -281,6 +282,18 @@  vmalloc_fault:
 		pte_k = pte_offset_kernel(pmd_k, addr);
 		if (!pte_present(*pte_k))
 			goto no_context;
+
+		/*
+		 * The kernel assumes that TLBs don't cache invalid
+		 * entries, but in RISC-V, SFENCE.VMA specifies an
+		 * ordering constraint, not a cache flush; it is
+		 * necessary even after writing invalid entries.
+		 * Relying on flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault would
+		 * suffice, but the extra traps reduce
+		 * performance. So, eagerly SFENCE.VMA.
+		 */
+		local_flush_tlb_page(addr);
+
 		return;
 	}
 }