ArmPkg/ArmMmuLib ARM: assume page tables are in writeback cacheable memory

Given that these days, our ARM port only supports ARMv7 and later, we
can assume that the page table walker's memory accesses are cache
coherent, and so there is no need to perform cache maintenance. It
does require the page tables themselves to reside in memory mapped as
writeback cacheable so ASSERT() that this is the case.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel
2018-06-21 09:17:52 +02:00
parent 713aea3486
commit 6e275c613e
2 changed files with 3 additions and 13 deletions

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@@ -100,8 +100,6 @@ ASM_FUNC(ArmGetTTBR0BaseAddress)
// IN VOID *MVA // R1
// );
ASM_FUNC(ArmUpdateTranslationTableEntry)
mcr p15,0,R0,c7,c14,1 @ DCCIMVAC Clean data cache by MVA
dsb
mcr p15,0,R1,c8,c7,1 @ TLBIMVA TLB Invalidate MVA
mcr p15,0,R9,c7,c5,6 @ BPIALL Invalidate Branch predictor array. R9 == NoOp
dsb