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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2014-03-12 16:28:09 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-05-06 07:59:19 -0700
commit05a759c87255a4eeabfd49aa98bb87ea7310fc64 (patch)
treeaab8a6addea98c9fd8fe9a9045d2ca251d9f41f4 /arch
parent798d3c532b82dce20bcdc512572f542093142d02 (diff)
arm64: Do not synchronise I and D caches for special ptes
commit 71fdb6bf61bf0692f004f9daf5650392c0cfe300 upstream. Special pte mappings are not intended to be executable and do not even have an associated struct page. This patch ensures that we do not call __sync_icache_dcache() on such ptes. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com> Tested-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org> Tested-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index aa3917c8b623..cdfdee7c13ca 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
{
if (pte_valid_user(pte)) {
- if (pte_exec(pte))
+ if (!pte_special(pte) && pte_exec(pte))
__sync_icache_dcache(pte, addr);
if (pte_dirty(pte) && pte_write(pte))
pte_val(pte) &= ~PTE_RDONLY;