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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 00/21] Add support for 32-bit tasks on asymmetric AArch32 systems
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 06:45:42PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote:
> Hi Will
>
> On 05/18/21 10:47, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > This is the long-awaited v6 of these patches which I last posted at the
> > end of last year:
> >
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201027215118.27003-1-will@kernel.org
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109213023.15092-1-will@kernel.org
> > v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113093720.21106-1-will@kernel.org
> > v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201124155039.13804-1-will@kernel.org
> > v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201208132835.6151-1-will@kernel.org
> >
> > There was also a nice LWN writeup in case you've forgotten what this is
> > about:
> >
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/838339/
> >
> > It's taken me a while to get a v6 of this together, partly due to
> > addressing the review feedback on v5, but also because this has now seen
> > testing on real hardware which threw up some surprises in suspend/resume,
> > SCHED_DEADLINE and compat hwcap reporting. Thanks to Quentin for helping
> > me to debug those issues.
> >
> > The aim of this series is to allow 32-bit ARM applications to run on
> > arm64 SoCs where not all of the CPUs support the 32-bit instruction set.
> > Unfortunately, such SoCs are real and will continue to be productised
> > over the next few years at least. I can assure you that I'm not just
> > doing this for fun.
> >
> > Changes in v6 include:
> >
> > * Save/restore the affinity mask across execve() to 32-bit and back to
> > 64-bit again.
> >
> > * Allow 32-bit deadline tasks, but skip straight to fallback path when
> > determining new affinity mask on execve().
> >
> > * Fixed resume-from-suspend path when the resuming CPU is 64-bit-only
> > by deferring wake-ups for 32-bit tasks until the secondary CPUs are
> > back online.
> >
> > * Bug fixes (compat hwcaps, memory leak, cpuset fallback path).
> >
> > * Documentation for arm64. It's in the divisive .rst format, but please
> > take a look anyway!
> >
> > I'm pretty happy with this now and it seems to do the right thing,
> > although the new patches in this revision would certainly benefit from
> > review. Series based on v5.13-rc1.
>
> It's late Fri and I'm off next week (I'm starting to sense an omen here, it's
> the 2nd or 3rd time the post syncs with my holiday), so a bit of a rushed
> review but the series looks good to me. Feel free to stick my Reviewed-by for
> the series, except patch 13 where I skipped it, given the few comments I had
> are addressed.

Thanks, Qais. I'm planning a v7 with quite a few changes, so it's probably
best if you offer your Reviewed-by on individual patches when you're happy
with them rather than me adding it to code that I'm still tweaking. But
thanks for the offer!

Have a good week off,

Will

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