[PATCH RFC v2 rcu 6/8] arch/arm64: Add ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS Kconfig option

Paul E. McKenney paulmck at kernel.org
Thu Sep 29 11:07:29 PDT 2022


The arm64 architecture uses either an LL/SC loop (old systems) or an LSE
stadd instruction (new systems) to implement this_cpu_add(), both of which
are NMI safe.  This means that the old and more-efficient srcu_read_lock()
may be used in NMI context, without the need for srcu_read_lock_nmisafe().
Therefore, add the new Kconfig option ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS to
arch/arm64/Kconfig, which will cause NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE to be deselected,
thus preserving the current srcu_read_lock() behavior.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220910221947.171557773@linutronix.de/

Suggested-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju at quicinc.com>
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic at kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness at linutronix.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 571cc234d0b3..664725a0b5dd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select ARCH_HAS_KCOV
 	select ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
 	select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
+	select ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS
 	select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
 	select ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
 	select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23




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