From ee28fed5ccc66fbdef4119451aa6754501705a7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:59:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Permit transitioning from Global to Non-Global without BBM Commit 4e6020565596 upstream. Break-before-make is not needed when transitioning from Global to Non-Global mappings, provided that the contiguous hint is not being used. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c index 606c3654186f..fa20124c19d5 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c @@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ static bool pgattr_change_is_safe(u64 old, u64 new) if ((old | new) & PTE_CONT) return false; + /* Transitioning from Global to Non-Global is safe */ + if (((old ^ new) == PTE_NG) && (new & PTE_NG)) + return true; + return ((old ^ new) & ~mask) == 0; } -- 2.20.1