[PATCH 03/11] Thumb-2: Implementation of the unified start-up and exceptions code

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Mar 15 11:43:27 EDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:20 +0000, Anders Grafström wrote:
> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >
> >> So yes, your patch is absolutely required - all ARMv5 and below are
> >> facing a hazard as the kernel stands.  It might explain some of the
> >> weird behaviours people have been reporting as well.
> >>
> >> Please cleanup the description and submit to the patch system.
> >
> > And please add a small comment along side the otherwise seemingly
> > useless nop.
> 
> Done.
> 
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=5991/1
> 
BTW, should we have an #ifdef for __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6? Not that it
would make a noticeable difference in speed.

-- 
Catalin




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