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    arm64: kpti: Avoid rewriting early page tables when KASLR is enabled · b89d82ef
    Will Deacon authored
    A side effect of commit c55191e9 ("arm64: mm: apply r/o permissions
    of VM areas to its linear alias as well") is that the linear map is
    created with page granularity, which means that transitioning the early
    page table from global to non-global mappings when enabling kpti can
    take a significant amount of time during boot.
    
    Given that most CPU implementations do not require kpti, this mainly
    impacts KASLR builds where kpti is forcefully enabled. However, in these
    situations we know early on that non-global mappings are required and
    can avoid the use of global mappings from the beginning. The only gotcha
    is Cavium erratum #27456, which we must detect based on the MIDR value
    of the boot CPU.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarJohn Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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