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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-12-10 19:05:36 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-01-31 22:25:54 +0300
commitfcad06387d8d716abd18df09999a1703aeb854fa (patch)
treeca067a1d8eabbd10549090a75bbb974a4fd92808 /arch
parenta8c5c52608ff26f42c54069ae1004b46d47509c3 (diff)
downloadlinux-fcad06387d8d716abd18df09999a1703aeb854fa.tar.xz
arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker
commit 32d6397805d00573ce1fa55f408ce2bca15b0ad3 upstream. In paging_init, we allocate the zero page, memset it to zero and then point TTBR0 to it in order to avoid speculative fetches through the identity mapping. In order to guarantee that the freshly zeroed page is indeed visible to the page table walker, we need to execute a dsb instruction prior to writing the TTBR. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 9211b8527f25..9317974c9b8e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -451,6 +451,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
empty_zero_page = virt_to_page(zero_page);
+ /* Ensure the zero page is visible to the page table walker */
+ dsb(ishst);
+
/*
* TTBR0 is only used for the identity mapping at this stage. Make it
* point to zero page to avoid speculatively fetching new entries.