Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 May 2015 11:51:11 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: Preserve the user r/w register tpidr_el0 on context switch and fork in compat mode |
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On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 05:24:18PM +0100, André Hentschel wrote: > From: André Hentschel <nerv@dawncrow.de> > > Since commit a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760 the user writeable TLS > register on ARM is preserved per thread. > > This patch does it analogous to the ARM patch, but for compat mode on ARM64. > > Signed-off-by: André Hentschel <nerv@dawncrow.de> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> > Cc: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com> > > --- > This patch is against Linux 4.1-rc1 (b787f68c36d49bb1d9236f403813641efa74a031)
Curious, but why do you need this? iirc, we added this for arch/arm/ because of some windows rt (?) emulation in wine. Is that still the case here and is anybody actually using that?
Will
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