[PATCH v12 04/31] arm64/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

Jerome Glisse jglisse at redhat.com
Fri Apr 19 07:51:13 AEST 2019


On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:41:56PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 04:31:27PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > Le 16/04/2019 à 16:27, Mark Rutland a écrit :
> > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:44:55PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > > > From: Mahendran Ganesh <opensource.ganesh at gmail.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT for arm64. This
> > > > enables Speculative Page Fault handler.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > This is missing your S-o-B.
> > 
> > You're right, I missed that...
> > 
> > > The first patch noted that the ARCH_SUPPORTS_* option was there because
> > > the arch code had to make an explicit call to try to handle the fault
> > > speculatively, but that isn't addeed until patch 30.
> > > 
> > > Why is this separate from that code?
> > 
> > Andrew was recommended this a long time ago for bisection purpose. This
> > allows to build the code with CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT before the code
> > that trigger the spf handler is added to the per architecture's code.
> 
> Ok. I think it would be worth noting that in the commit message, to
> avoid anyone else asking the same question. :)

Should have read this thread before looking at x86 and ppc :)

In any case the patch is:

Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>


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