[PATCH] arm64: kernel thread don't need to save fpsimd context.

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Jun 11 07:40:43 PDT 2015


On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:04:32PM +0800, Chunyan Zhang wrote:
> From: Janet Liu <janet.liu at spreadtrum.com>
> 
> kernel thread's default fpsimd state is zero. When fork a thread, if parent is kernel thread,
>  and save hardware context to parent's fpsimd state, but this hardware context is user
> process's context, because kernel thread don't use fpsimd, it will not introduce issue,
> it add a little cost.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Janet Liu <janet.liu at spreadtrum.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang at spreadtrum.com>

Applied. Thanks.

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Catalin



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