lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [May]   [30]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 2/2] arm64: enable context tracking
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:45:04PM +0100, Larry Bassel wrote:
> Make calls to ct_user_enter when the kernel is exited
> and ct_user_exit when the kernel is entered (in el0_da,
> el0_ia, el0_svc, el0_irq and all of the "error" paths).
>
> These macros expand to function calls which will only work
> properly if el0_sync and related code has been rearranged
> (in a previous patch of this series).
>
> The calls to ct_user_exit are made after hw debugging has been
> enabled (enable_dbg_and_irq).
>
> The call to ct_user_enter is made at the beginning of the
> kernel_exit macro.
>
> This patch is based on earlier work by Kevin Hilman.
> Save/restore optimizations were also done by Kevin.

Apparently I'm feeling pedantic today, one minor comment below...

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> index b0101b9..3c484e2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -30,6 +30,32 @@
> #include <asm/unistd32.h>
>
> /*
> + * Context tracking subsystem. Used to instrument transitions
> + * between user and kernel mode.
> + */
> + .macro ct_user_exit, restore = 0
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING
> + bl context_tracking_user_exit
> + .if \restore == 1

... I know we already changed this argument from \save, but maybe just
naming it \syscall makes most sense now?

If you make that change:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

I'd like to give these some stress testing before it gets merged, so I'm
not sure if it'll make it for 3.16 given where we are at the moment.

Will


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-05-30 21:01    [W:0.132 / U:0.052 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site