Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: errata: Workaround possible Cortex-A715 [ESR|FAR]_ELx corruption

[Catalin Marinas]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 08:09:15AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_MODIFY_PROT_TRANSACTION
> +static inline pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +					   unsigned long addr,
> +					   pte_t *ptep)
> +{
> +	pte_t pte = ptep_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep);
>  
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_2645198)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Break-before-make (BBM) is required for all user space mappings
> +		 * when the permission changes from executable to non-executable
> +		 * in cases where cpu is affected with errata #2645198.
> +		 */
> +		if (pte_user_exec(pte) && cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_2645198))
> +			__flush_tlb_range(vma, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, false, 3);

Why not flush_tlb_page() here?

But more importantly, can we not use ptep_clear_flush() instead (and
huge_ptep_clear_flush())? They return the pte and do the TLBI.

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Catalin