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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2019-06-10 18:52:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2019-06-10 18:52:53 +0100 |
| commit | 4343f61103cdb8ccd6f3d5dd7168f1176a1cee37 (patch) | |
| tree | 3db0a2e099cf7feb0c2d60d2a4bf1bf10d5253db /arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | |
| parent | aef9752274f4045b0dab577e113da63c96832f77 (diff) | |
| parent | d1fdb6d8f6a4109a4263176c84b899076a5f8008 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v5.2-rc4' into spi-5.3
Linux 5.2-rc4
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h index 039fbd822ec6..92b6b7cf67dd 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h @@ -718,12 +718,11 @@ USER(\label, ic ivau, \tmp2) // invalidate I line PoU * the output section, any use of such directives is undefined. * * The yield itself consists of the following: - * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling - * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, - * yielding is pointless. - * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable - * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the - * yield fixup code. + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1 and a reschedule is also + * needed. If so, calling of preempt_enable() in kernel_neon_end() will + * trigger a reschedule. If it is not the case, yielding is pointless. + * - Disable and re-enable kernel mode NEON, and branch to the yield fixup + * code. * * This macro sequence may clobber all CPU state that is not guaranteed by the * AAPCS to be preserved across an ordinary function call. |