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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-22 08:36:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-22 08:36:16 -0700
commit54dee406374ce8adb352c48e175176247cb8db7c (patch)
tree5a935f0e3bdbd28d869f5cd319891023e1152a3a /arch/arm64/include/asm
parentMerge tag 'gfs2-5.1.fixes2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2 (diff)
parentarm64: vdso: Explicitly add build-id option (diff)
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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/asm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h11
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.