[PATCH 11/14] ARM: v6k: use CPU domain feature if we include support for arch < ARMv6K

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Jan 27 13:14:56 EST 2011


On 17 January 2011 19:24, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Rather than turning off CPU domain switching when the build architecture
> includes ARMv6K, thereby causing problems for ARMv6-supporting kernels,
> turn it on when it's required to support a CPU architecture.

(sorry, I'm well behind list messages, didn't reply earlier)

Does it mean that we get domains enabled even for ARMv7 when ARMv6 is
built in the same kernel? The side effect is that user read-only
addresses are writable by the kernel and SWP emulation no longer
works.

-- 
Catalin



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