[PATCH v2 05/14] arm64/asm: Introduce assembly macros for managing ALLINT

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Dec 5 09:29:54 PST 2022


On Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:16:59 +0000,
Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> In order to allow assembly code to ensure that not even superpriorty
> interrupts can preempt it provide macros for enabling and disabling
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> ALLINT.ALLINT.  This is not integrated into the existing DAIF macros
> since we do not always wish to manage ALLINT along with DAIF and the
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> use of DAIF in the naming of the existing macros might lead to surprises
> if ALLINT is also managed.

	M.

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