Commit 7f088727 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Catalin Marinas

arm64: tlb: Rewrite stale comment in asm/tlbflush.h

Peter Z asked me to justify the barrier usage in asm/tlbflush.h, but
actually that whole block comment needs to be rewritten.
Reported-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent ace8cb75
......@@ -70,43 +70,73 @@
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/*
* TLB Management
* ==============
* TLB Invalidation
* ================
*
* The TLB specific code is expected to perform whatever tests it needs
* to determine if it should invalidate the TLB for each call. Start
* addresses are inclusive and end addresses are exclusive; it is safe to
* round these addresses down.
* This header file implements the low-level TLB invalidation routines
* (sometimes referred to as "flushing" in the kernel) for arm64.
*
* flush_tlb_all()
* Every invalidation operation uses the following template:
*
* DSB ISHST // Ensure prior page-table updates have completed
* TLBI ... // Invalidate the TLB
* DSB ISH // Ensure the TLB invalidation has completed
* if (invalidated kernel mappings)
* ISB // Discard any instructions fetched from the old mapping
*
*
* The following functions form part of the "core" TLB invalidation API,
* as documented in Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst:
*
* Invalidate the entire TLB.
* flush_tlb_all()
* Invalidate the entire TLB (kernel + user) on all CPUs
*
* flush_tlb_mm(mm)
* Invalidate an entire user address space on all CPUs.
* The 'mm' argument identifies the ASID to invalidate.
*
* flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end)
* Invalidate the virtual-address range '[start, end)' on all
* CPUs for the user address space corresponding to 'vma->mm'.
* Note that this operation also invalidates any walk-cache
* entries associated with translations for the specified address
* range.
*
* flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end)
* Same as flush_tlb_range(..., start, end), but applies to
* kernel mappings rather than a particular user address space.
* Whilst not explicitly documented, this function is used when
* unmapping pages from vmalloc/io space.
*
* flush_tlb_page(vma, addr)
* Invalidate a single user mapping for address 'addr' in the
* address space corresponding to 'vma->mm'. Note that this
* operation only invalidates a single, last-level page-table
* entry and therefore does not affect any walk-caches.
*
* Invalidate all TLB entries in a particular address space.
* - mm - mm_struct describing address space
*
* flush_tlb_range(mm,start,end)
* Next, we have some undocumented invalidation routines that you probably
* don't want to call unless you know what you're doing:
*
* Invalidate a range of TLB entries in the specified address
* space.
* - mm - mm_struct describing address space
* - start - start address (may not be aligned)
* - end - end address (exclusive, may not be aligned)
* local_flush_tlb_all()
* Same as flush_tlb_all(), but only applies to the calling CPU.
*
* flush_tlb_page(vaddr,vma)
* __flush_tlb_kernel_pgtable(addr)
* Invalidate a single kernel mapping for address 'addr' on all
* CPUs, ensuring that any walk-cache entries associated with the
* translation are also invalidated.
*
* Invalidate the specified page in the specified address range.
* - vaddr - virtual address (may not be aligned)
* - vma - vma_struct describing address range
* __flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end, stride, last_level)
* Invalidate the virtual-address range '[start, end)' on all
* CPUs for the user address space corresponding to 'vma->mm'.
* The invalidation operations are issued at a granularity
* determined by 'stride' and only affect any walk-cache entries
* if 'last_level' is equal to false.
*
* flush_kern_tlb_page(kaddr)
*
* Invalidate the TLB entry for the specified page. The address
* will be in the kernels virtual memory space. Current uses
* only require the D-TLB to be invalidated.
* - kaddr - Kernel virtual memory address
* Finally, take a look at asm/tlb.h to see how tlb_flush() is implemented
* on top of these routines, since that is our interface to the mmu_gather
* API as used by munmap() and friends.
*/
static inline void local_flush_tlb_all(void)
{
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