From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 1/2] arm64: adjust el0_sync so that a function can be called
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:20:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140530182037.GH22895@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401399904-24471-2-git-send-email-larry.bassel@linaro.org>
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:45:03PM +0100, Larry Bassel wrote:
> To implement the context tracker properly on arm64,
> a function call needs to be made after debugging and
> interrupts are turned on, but before the lr is changed
> to point to ret_to_user(). If the function call
> is made after the lr is changed the function will not
> return to the correct place.
>
> For similar reasons, defer the setting of x0 so that
> it doesn't need to be saved around the function call
> (save far_el1 in x26 temporarily instead).
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thanks guys!
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-30 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-29 21:45 [PATCH v6 0/2] context tracker support for arm64 Larry Bassel
2014-05-29 21:45 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] arm64: adjust el0_sync so that a function can be called Larry Bassel
2014-05-30 18:20 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-05-29 21:45 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] arm64: enable context tracking Larry Bassel
2014-05-30 18:23 ` Will Deacon
[not found] ` <7hioonythl.fsf@paris.lan>
2014-06-03 10:26 ` Will Deacon
2014-06-03 17:34 ` Kevin Hilman
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2014-05-29 20:08 [PATCH v6 0/2] context tracker support for arm64 Larry Bassel
2014-05-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] arm64: adjust el0_sync so that a function can be called Larry Bassel
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