[PATCH 0/2] arm64: cleanup DAIF.D manipulation

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Sun Apr 28 01:59:15 PDT 2024


On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:35:21 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> These patches cleanup some historical manipulation of DAIF.D which is no
> longer necessary. The main goal here is to remove the unnecessary
> manipulation so that it's easier to rework DAIF manipulation in future
> to handle other exception mask bits (e.g. PSTATE.{ALLINT,PM}). That's
> necessary for supporting the architectural NMI, etc.
> 
> The first patch updates a stale comment, removing an already-stale
> reference to a macro that'll be removed entirely in the second patch.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/2] arm64: assembler: update stale comment for disable_step_tsk
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/3a2d2ca42975
[2/2] arm64: defer clearing DAIF.D
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/080297beccf7

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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