Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 04/31] arm64/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

From: Jerome Glisse <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:51:13 -0400

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:41:56PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:31:27PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > Le 16/04/2019 à 16:27, Mark Rutland a écrit :
> > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:44:55PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > > > From: Mahendran Ganesh <[email-masked]>
> > > > 
> > > > Set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT for arm64. This
> > > > enables Speculative Page Fault handler.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <[email-masked]>
> > > 
> > > This is missing your S-o-B.
> > 
> > You're right, I missed that...
> > 
> > > The first patch noted that the ARCH_SUPPORTS_* option was there because
> > > the arch code had to make an explicit call to try to handle the fault
> > > speculatively, but that isn't addeed until patch 30.
> > > 
> > > Why is this separate from that code?
> > 
> > Andrew was recommended this a long time ago for bisection purpose. This
> > allows to build the code with CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT before the code
> > that trigger the spf handler is added to the per architecture's code.
> 
> Ok. I think it would be worth noting that in the commit message, to
> avoid anyone else asking the same question. :)

Should have read this thread before looking at x86 and ppc :)

In any case the patch is:

Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <[email-masked]>