Subject: [PATCHv4] arm: Preserve the user r/w register TPIDRURW on context switch and fork

From: [email-masked] (André Hentschel)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 17:02:25 +0200

Am 08.05.2013 21:03, schrieb Andr? Hentschel:
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Hentschel?= <[email-masked]>
> 
> Since commit 6a1c53124aa1 the user writeable TLS register was zeroed to
> prevent it from being used as a covert channel between two tasks.
> 
> There are more and more applications coming to WinRT, Wine could support them,
> but mostly they expect to have the thread environment block (TEB) in TPIDRURW.
> 
> This patch preserves that register per thread instead of clearing it.
> Unlike the TPIDRURO, which is already switched, the TPIDRURW
> can be updated from userspace so needs careful treatment in the case that we
> modify TPIDRURW and call fork(). To avoid this we must always read
> TPIDRURW in copy_thread.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andr? Hentschel <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <[email-masked]> 
> 

Hi,
I'm not yet very familiar with the development process here,
am i getting no feedback on v4 because of the mergewindow being closed?
Or is there another reason? Sry for being impatient.