lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2020]   [Nov]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] xtensa: fix broken TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL assembly
From
Date
On 11/11/20 1:53 PM, Max Filippov wrote:
> TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL handling in xtensa assembly is implemented
> incorrectly: there should be a call to do_notify_resume when either
> TIF_SIGPENDING, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME or TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL bit is set in the
> thread_info::flags. The straightforward way to do it would be
>
> _bbsi.l a4, TIF_NEED_RESCHED, 3f
> _bbsi.l a4, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, 2f
> _bbsi.l a4, TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL, 2f
> _bbci.l a4, TIF_SIGPENDING, 5f
>
> Optimize it a little bit and use bit mask and bnone opcode to skip
> do_notify_resume invocation. Shuffle _TIF_* flags a bit so that used bit
> mask fits into the immediate field of movi opcode.

Thanks - do you mind if I fold this in with a reference to your
changes? Seems like that'd be a better option than leaving it
broken for a bit.

--
Jens Axboe

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2020-11-11 22:06    [W:0.059 / U:0.172 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site