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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-05-22 08:36:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-05-22 08:36:16 -0700 |
| commit | 54dee406374ce8adb352c48e175176247cb8db7c (patch) | |
| tree | 5a935f0e3bdbd28d869f5cd319891023e1152a3a /arch/arm64/include | |
| parent | 651bae980e3f3e6acf0d297ced08f9d7af71a8c9 (diff) | |
| parent | 7a0a93c51799edc45ee57c6cc1679aa94f1e03d5 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
- Fix SPE probe failure when backing auxbuf with high-order pages
- Fix handling of DMA allocations from outside of the vmalloc area
- Fix generation of build-id ELF section for vDSO object
- Disable huge I/O mappings if kernel page table dumping is enabled
- A few other minor fixes (comments, kconfig etc)
* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
arm64: vdso: Explicitly add build-id option
arm64/mm: Inhibit huge-vmap with ptdump
arm64: Print physical address of page table base in show_pte()
arm64: don't trash config with compat symbol if COMPAT is disabled
arm64: assembler: Update comment above cond_yield_neon() macro
drivers/perf: arm_spe: Don't error on high-order pages for aux buf
arm64/iommu: handle non-remapped addresses in ->mmap and ->get_sgtable
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h index 039fbd822ec6..92b6b7cf67dd 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h @@ -718,12 +718,11 @@ USER(\label, ic ivau, \tmp2) // invalidate I line PoU * the output section, any use of such directives is undefined. * * The yield itself consists of the following: - * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling - * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, - * yielding is pointless. - * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable - * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the - * yield fixup code. + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1 and a reschedule is also + * needed. If so, calling of preempt_enable() in kernel_neon_end() will + * trigger a reschedule. If it is not the case, yielding is pointless. + * - Disable and re-enable kernel mode NEON, and branch to the yield fixup + * code. * * This macro sequence may clobber all CPU state that is not guaranteed by the * AAPCS to be preserved across an ordinary function call. |