[PATCH 0/3] ARM: vfp: Introduce vfp_lock() for VFP locking.

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Thu Jun 15 03:16:53 PDT 2023


There was a bug report on PREEMPT_RT which made me look into VFP locking
on ARM. The usage of local_bh_disable() to ensure exclusive access to
the VFP unit is not working on PREEMPT_RT because the softirq context is
preemptible.

This series introduces vfp_lock() which does the right thing.

This series depends on Ard's rewrite of the VFP exception handling:
	ARM: convert VFP exception handling to C code
	https://lore.kernel.org/20230522080310.502250-1-ardb@kernel.org

Sebastian




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