arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:05:36 +0000 (16:05 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 19:29:04 +0000 (11:29 -0800)
commit8182d4cf11a77f2c2b6afe85366e9328107b6256
tree105c65f0e3a914bbef6b4be74b0cfabf658828d7
parentc01afb9239eaee84a93e7b0319e3935f55604361
arm64: mm: ensure that the zero page is visible to the page table walker

commit 32d6397805d00573ce1fa55f408ce2bca15b0ad3 upstream.

In paging_init, we allocate the zero page, memset it to zero and then
point TTBR0 to it in order to avoid speculative fetches through the
identity mapping.

In order to guarantee that the freshly zeroed page is indeed visible to
the page table walker, we need to execute a dsb instruction prior to
writing the TTBR.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c