Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/3] arm64: tlb: add support for TTL field

From: yezhenyu (A)
Date: Tue Mar 17 2020 - 06:59:59 EST


Hi Marc,

On 2020/3/11 17:12, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Zhenyu,
>
> On 2020-03-11 02:53, Zhenyu Ye wrote:
>> ARMv8.4-TTL provides the TTL field in tlbi instruction to indicate
>> the level of translation table walk holding the leaf entry for the
>> address that is being invalidated. Hardware can use this information
>> to determine if there was a risk of splintering.
>>
>> This set of patches adds TTL field to __TLBI_ADDR, and uses
>> Architecture-specific MM context to pass the TTL value to tlb interface.
>>
>> The default value of TTL is 0, which will not have any impact on the
>> TLB maintenance instructions. The last patch trys to use TTL field in
>> some obviously tlb-flush interface.
>
> I have already posted some support for ARMv8.4-TTL as part of my NV series [1],
> patches 62, 67, 68 and 69. This only deals with Stage-2 translation so far.
> If you intend to add Stage-1, please build on top of what I have already posted
> (I can extract the patches on a separate branch if you want).
>
> Thanks,
>
> ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ M.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20200211174938.27809-1-maz@xxxxxxxxxx/

I have sent the PATCH v2 on 2020-03-12 [1]. Do you have any suggestion
for my code? Is it appropriate to post my code based on your branch?

Looking forward to your suggestions.


Thanks,

zhenyu

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/12/2