[PATCH v5 08/14] KVM: ARM: Emulation framework and CP15 emulation

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jan 14 11:36:36 EST 2013


On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:39:31PM -0500, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * Check whether this vcpu requires the cache to be flushed on
> +	 * this physical CPU. This is a consequence of doing dcache
> +	 * operations by set/way on this vcpu. We do it here to be in
> +	 * a non-preemptible section.
> +	 */
> +	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &vcpu->arch.require_dcache_flush)) {
> +		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &vcpu->arch.require_dcache_flush);

There is cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu() which may be better for this.



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