[RFC PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: Remove the __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW definition

Frank Rowand frank.rowand at am.sony.com
Mon Dec 19 20:36:55 EST 2011


On 12/19/11 06:57, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is version 2 of the set of patches for removing
> __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW on ARM. The series was updated to allow
> for the pgd switch not to be deferred if switch_mm() is called with
> interrupts enabled. This is required for cases where switch_mm() is
> called directly (currently from use_mm() and idle_task_exit()) without a
> corresponding finish_arch_post_lock_switch() call. The original changes
> to activate_mm() were also reverted since switch_mm() can do the actual
> pgd switch when the interrupts are enabled.
> 
> If there are no objections, I'd like to push the series to -next to get
> more exposure (the patches are aimed for 3.4-rc1 unless other issues are
> found in the meantime).

Version 2 looks good to me.  Thanks!

-Frank




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