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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h')
| -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. |