Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752848Ab3DVVHu (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:07:50 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:63939 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751152Ab3DVVHs (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:07:48 -0400 Message-ID: <5175A697.3080308@dawncrow.de> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:07:35 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Hentschel?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Deacon , Russell King - ARM Linux CC: "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] arm: Preserve TPIDRURW on context switch References: <517168BB.3070903@dawncrow.de> <20130422143616.GP14496@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130422151836.GA15665@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130422151836.GA15665@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:8bvTqSKq8QLReRkzDrpKdXpzJMwoHw6AQSlANfz9wTi IcgPhvCCeWD2r/tJSPvmOvJI0176BuxHq+ThLamFdqdLSp32x/ 7NVSI1SOgYFcm+mfVPR73bzYpjk7yNh6unHCGL378hlezppNVj tuQMgwzbu4u/u1LTbbMAjchN9WPdA//kLbxrVNWUoCDu0wQMJQ ZDSmv/YrASDO2MkQTb2pfLCRlfZpjrZZSWFHa8T3jdRP3q9/JO QVC7pk8/a3g9Xg/BcRU/oBmHgDbVjVye2y5SS7NbP9OLTusbFc GVV3tIL1lNukUKCBzIhEUHebjkttrzQ9zPMG1CeGpz/87nt4Bw 51Nw1oKtvuOpASioj4h4= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1790 Lines: 37 Am 22.04.2013 17:18, schrieb Will Deacon: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:36:16PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 05:54:35PM +0200, Andr? Hentschel wrote: >>> From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Hentschel?= >>> >>> There are more and more applications coming to WinRT, Wine could support them, >>> but mostly they expect to have the thread environment block (TEB) in TPIDRURW. >>> This register must be preserved per thread instead of being cleared. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Andr? Hentschel >> >> This actually makes things less efficient all round, because you >> now use the value immediately after loading, which means it will cause >> pipeline stalls, certainly on older CPUs. >> >> Could you please rework the patch to try avoiding soo many modifications >> to the way things have been done here? > > copy_thread also needs updating so that the *register* value for the parent > is copied to the child, since the parent may have written the register > after the last context-switch, meaning that tp_value is out-of-date. Thank you both for reviewing. I guess you mostly mean "ldr r6, [r2, #TI_CPU_DOMAIN]". I just thought about old CPUs and remembered again that we at Wine need that patch only on v7 (and later). So is it ok to introduce a set_tls_v7 in tls.h and make use of CONFIG_CPU_V7 compile-time check in the changed files and in the copy_thread function? Do i need any further flag checks in copy_thread or can i use the compile-time check to add unconditional code? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/