BUG: commit "ARM: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW on pre-ARMv6 CPUs" breaks armv5 with CONFIG_PREEMPT

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Jul 17 15:41:21 EDT 2013


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:51:39AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:41:19AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> > What happend to that patch? I cannot find it in v3.10.x nor in linus/master.
> 
> Catalin sent it to me, and I didn't apply it because it's still racy.
> 
> We have stateful context switches (due to cache clearing) and this does
> nothing to solve the problem there.  If we get preempted during the
> cache clearing, things will still go wrong.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=7771/1
> 
> I've no idea what's happening about this.  It looks to me like nothing
> happened after Catalin's last comment there.

Too many other things to do. It's on my list for this week or early next
week.

-- 
Catalin



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