[PATCH] ARM: kuser: consistently use usr_ret for returning from helpers

Dave Martin dave.martin at linaro.org
Mon Jan 30 11:31:54 EST 2012


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:33:52PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> __kuser_cmpxchg64 has a return path using bx lr to get back to the caller.
> This is actually ok since the code in question is predicated on
> CONFIG_CPU_32v6K, but for the sake of consistency using the usr_ret
> macro is probably better.
> 
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net>
> Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

This matches the way I originally intended usr_ret to be used.

Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>

> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> index 3a456c6..be16a48 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ __kuser_cmpxchg64:				@ 0xffff0f60
>  	smp_dmb	arm
>  	rsbs	r0, r3, #0			@ set returned val and C flag
>  	ldmfd	sp!, {r4, r5, r6, r7}
> -	bx	lr
> +	usr_ret	lr
>  
>  #elif !defined(CONFIG_SMP)
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.4.1
> 



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