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To: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] arm: Preserve TPIDRURW on context switch
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Am 03.05.2013 17:24, schrieb Jonathan Austin:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> Thanks for the comments - you're right about the 'switch_tls'
> being more appropriate - needed to take a step back to see that.
> 
> I've got a few questions, added inline.
> 
> André, Assuming I've understood things okay, there's a patch that
> uses Russell's asm stuff (with minor modifications, see the questions)
> and includes the C-world changes too. Perhaps you could see that it
> solves your problem?

I'll test it tomorrow with my test tool and Wine.
FWIW i hacked together a test tool and it's available at https://github.com/AndreRH/tpidrurw-test
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