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Message-ID: <Zsxb7MpUklPK3Chf@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:41:48 +0300
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
	Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@....com>,
	Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
	Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>,
	Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>, linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev,
	Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gankulkarni@...amperecomputing.com>,
	Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>,
	Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@...dia.com>,
	Alper Gun <alpergun@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 15/19] arm64: mm: Avoid TLBI when marking pages as
 valid

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 02:19:20PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> When __change_memory_common() is purely setting the valid bit on a PTE
> (e.g. via the set_memory_valid() call) there is no need for a TLBI as
> either the entry isn't changing (the valid bit was already set) or the
> entry was invalid and so should not have been cached in the TLB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

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