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From: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
To: will@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	maz@kernel.org, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	neeraju@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Skip apply SSBS call for non SSBS system
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:18:13 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16e9b436-5919-39df-3f1a-a717d4229651@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1596550484-11029-1-git-send-email-gkohli@codeaurora.org>

Hi,

Please let us know, is below patch good to have
or not for non ssbs systems.

On 8/4/2020 7:44 PM, Gaurav Kohli wrote:
> In a system where no cpu's implement SSBS, for
> them no need to set pstate. This might help to save
> few cpu cycles during context switch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> index 6089638..79f80f1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> @@ -477,6 +477,13 @@ static void ssbs_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
>   	struct pt_regs *regs = task_pt_regs(next);
>   
>   	/*
> +	 * For Targets which don't have SSBS support, they
> +	 * can return from here.
> +	 */
> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_SSBD))
> +		return;
> +
> +	/*
>   	 * Nothing to do for kernel threads, but 'regs' may be junk
>   	 * (e.g. idle task) so check the flags and bail early.
>   	 */
> 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-11  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-04 14:14 [PATCH] arm64: Skip apply SSBS call for non SSBS system Gaurav Kohli
2020-08-04 14:14 ` [PATCH] nvmem: core: add support to NVMEM_NO_SYSFS_ENTRY Gaurav Kohli
2020-08-04 14:25   ` Gaurav Kohli
2020-08-04 14:14 ` [PATCH] nvmem: core: add NVMEM_SYSFS Kconfig Gaurav Kohli
2020-08-04 14:26   ` Gaurav Kohli
2020-08-11  4:48 ` Gaurav Kohli [this message]
2020-08-12 13:30 ` [PATCH] arm64: Skip apply SSBS call for non SSBS system Will Deacon
2020-08-12 14:15   ` Gaurav Kohli

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