arm64: mm: allow preemption in copy_to_user_page
Currently we disable preemption in copy_to_user_page; a behaviour that we inherited from the 32-bit arm code. This was necessary for older cores without broadcast data cache maintenance, and ensured that cache lines were dirtied and cleaned by the same CPU. On these systems dirty cache line migration was not possible, so this was sufficient to guarantee coherency. On contemporary systems, cache coherence protocols permit (dirty) cache lines to migrate between CPUs as a result of speculation, prefetching, and other behaviours. To account for this, in ARMv8 data cache maintenance operations are broadcast and affect all data caches in the domain associated with the VA (i.e. ISH for kernel and user mappings). In __switch_to we ensure that tasks can be safely migrated in the middle of a maintenance sequence, using a dsb(ish) to ensure prior explicit memory accesses are observed and cache maintenance operations are completed before a task can be run on another CPU. Given the above, it is not necessary to disable preemption in copy_to_user_page. This patch removes the preempt_{disable,enable} calls, permitting preemption. Signed-off-by:Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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