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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-12-10 16:05:36 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-01-28 21:49:36 -0800
commitc8f487a49a527990b29795f22884c3af02b94d97 (patch)
tree1b69e3fddd05991531eec22562f3d4c56d23d0ba
parentc2db3a421b92e6f616405b47cfc03ff249492a34 (diff)
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>
-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 ba7477efad5c..5b77586ef0af 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -348,6 +348,9 @@ 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();
+
/*
* TTBR0 is only used for the identity mapping at this stage. Make it
* point to zero page to avoid speculatively fetching new entries.