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arm64: mm: Permit transitioning from Global to Non-Global without BBM

Break-before-make is not needed when transitioning from Global to
Non-Global mappings, provided that the contiguous hint is not being used.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Will Deacon 7 years ago
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      arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c

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arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c

@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ static bool pgattr_change_is_safe(u64 old, u64 new)
 	if ((old | new) & PTE_CONT)
 		return false;
 
+	/* Transitioning from Global to Non-Global is safe */
+	if (((old ^ new) == PTE_NG) && (new & PTE_NG))
+		return true;
+
 	return ((old ^ new) & ~mask) == 0;
 }