[PATCH v9 03/61] arm64: Turn flush_dcache_mmap_lock into a no-op

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Mar 13 2018 - 09:59:00 EST


From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

ARM64 doesn't walk the VMA tree in its flush_dcache_page()
implementation, so has no need to take the tree_lock.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 7dfcec4700fe..0094c6653b06 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -140,10 +140,8 @@ static inline void __flush_icache_all(void)
dsb(ish);
}

-#define flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping) \
- spin_lock_irq(&(mapping)->tree_lock)
-#define flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping) \
- spin_unlock_irq(&(mapping)->tree_lock)
+#define flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping) do { } while (0)
+#define flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping) do { } while (0)

/*
* We don't appear to need to do anything here. In fact, if we did, we'd
--
2.16.1