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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-10-29 04:43:29 -0600
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2019-10-29 04:43:29 -0600
commit822bbba0cabb50825a0ce22707dc45eb82d02853 (patch)
treeea61d4ca72cb60b4cae8e95f64eefa7cd2a36603 /arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c
parentd41abfd7ae33cd3c1d9189438937d61cb75e690a (diff)
parent7d194c2100ad2a6dded545887d02754948ca5241 (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.4-rc4' into docs-next
I need to pick up the independent changes made to Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst to be able to merge further work without creating a total mess.
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c
index 171773257974..06e56b470315 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -121,10 +121,16 @@ int ftrace_make_call(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, unsigned long addr)
/*
* Ensure updated trampoline is visible to instruction
- * fetch before we patch in the branch.
+ * fetch before we patch in the branch. Although the
+ * architecture doesn't require an IPI in this case,
+ * Neoverse-N1 erratum #1542419 does require one
+ * if the TLB maintenance in module_enable_ro() is
+ * skipped due to rodata_enabled. It doesn't seem worth
+ * it to make it conditional given that this is
+ * certainly not a fast-path.
*/
- __flush_icache_range((unsigned long)&dst[0],
- (unsigned long)&dst[1]);
+ flush_icache_range((unsigned long)&dst[0],
+ (unsigned long)&dst[1]);
}
addr = (unsigned long)dst;
#else /* CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS */