[PATCHv2] arm: Preserve TPIDRURW on context switch

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Apr 22 10:36:16 EDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 05:54:35PM +0200, André Hentschel wrote:
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Hentschel?= <nerv at dawncrow.de>
> 
> There are more and more applications coming to WinRT, Wine could support them,
> but mostly they expect to have the thread environment block (TEB) in TPIDRURW.
> This register must be preserved per thread instead of being cleared.
> 
> Signed-off-by: André Hentschel <nerv at dawncrow.de>

This actually makes things less efficient all round, because you
now use the value immediately after loading, which means it will cause
pipeline stalls, certainly on older CPUs.

Could you please rework the patch to try avoiding soo many modifications
to the way things have been done here?



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