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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 21:57:15 -0800
commitc05b439532292e3829272dbed5f48b7c06df91d3 (patch)
treef0679f865188d0a5dc463ced9a5378a794ea0810 /arch/arm64
parentc87aa8ce0861122f7422d640774f3867b8ef91c8 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
-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 f8dc7e8fce6f..c23c77312354 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ 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.