[PATCH 1/2] arm64/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed May 2 05:23:14 PDT 2018


On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 03:53:21PM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> Set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT for arm64. This
> enables Speculative Page Fault handler.

Are there are tests for this? I'm really nervous about enabling it...

Will

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh at gmail.com>
> ---
> This patch is on top of Laurent's v10 spf
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index eb2cf49..cd583a9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ config ARM64
>  	select SPARSE_IRQ
>  	select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
>  	select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
> +	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT if SMP
>  	help
>  	  ARM 64-bit (AArch64) Linux support.
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 



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