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A VPIPT I-cache has two main properties: 1. Lines allocated into the cache are tagged by VMID and a lookup can only hit lines that were allocated with the current VMID. 2. I-cache invalidation from EL1/0 only invalidates lines that match the current VMID of the CPU doing the invalidation. This can cause issues with non-VHE configurations, where the host runs at EL1 and wants to invalidate I-cache entries for a guest running with a different VMID. VHE is not affected, because the host runs at EL2 and I-cache invalidation applies as expected. This patch solves the problem by invalidating the I-cache when unmapping a page at stage 2 on a system with a VPIPT I-cache but not running with VHE enabled. Hopefully this is an obscure enough configuration that the overhead isn't anything to worry about, although it does mean that the by-range I-cache invalidation currently performed when mapping at stage 2 can be elided on such systems, because the I-cache will be clean for the guest VMID following a rollover event. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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