From: nerv@dawncrow•de (André Hentschel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: Preserve the user r/w register tpidr_el0 on context switch and fork in compat mode
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 20:43:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <556761D2.9040908@dawncrow.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150527143648.GA4232@arm.com>
Am 27.05.2015 um 16:36 schrieb Will Deacon:
> Hi Andr?,
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 05:18:29PM +0100, Andr? Hentschel wrote:
>> From: Andr? Hentschel <nerv@dawncrow•de>
>>
>> Since commit a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760 the user writeable TLS
>> register on ARM is preserved per thread.
>>
>> This patch does it analogous to the ARM patch, but for compat mode on ARM64.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andr? Hentschel <nerv@dawncrow•de>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>
>>
>> ---
>> This patch is against Linux 4.1-rc1 (b787f68c36d49bb1d9236f403813641efa74a031)
>>
>> v2: Trying to address suggestions by Will Deacon
>>
>> @Will Deacon: The macro you suggested is not helpful it seems, instead i introduced
>> static functions. They also could be macros i guess, but it seems
>> much cleaner to me to use functions as it only affects one file.
>
> I wanted to understand in more detail why the macro didn't work out for
> you, so I trued hacking together my own version of the patch (see below).
> It seems to hold up to light testing, so it would be good to know where
> you ran into problems.
>
>> Should the final version be send to rmk's patchtracker or will someone
>> else pick it up?
>
> This is an arm64 patch, so either Catalin or me will pick it up directly
> when it's ready to be merged.
>
> Will
Your patch works, you can add me as Tested-by. :)
My bad was that i didn't know that macro style (returning a variable conditionally with c code)
Sadly no new commit by me :(
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2015-05-20 16:18 [PATCH v2] arm64: Preserve the user r/w register tpidr_el0 on context switch and fork in compat mode André Hentschel
2015-05-27 14:36 ` Will Deacon
2015-05-28 18:43 ` André Hentschel [this message]
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