On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:39:00PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Patch 5a677ce044f1 (ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code) > introduced code that flushes page tables to the point of coherency. > This is overkill (point of unification is enough and already done), > and actually not required if running on a SMP capable platform > (the HW PTW can snoop other cpus' L1). > > Remove this code and let ae8a8b9553bd (ARM: 7691/1: mm: kill unused > TLB_CAN_READ_FROM_L1_CACHE and use ALT_SMP instead) turn it into > a no-op for SMP ARMv7.
I think the comment is a bit misleading. You actually don't need kvm_flush_dcache_to_poc() since you already do this in kvm_set_pte() etc. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
