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| author | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-06-14 14:18:53 -0600 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-06-14 14:18:53 -0600 |
| commit | 8afecfb0ec961e37e61b2d19c4fa71617a9482de (patch) | |
| tree | c43ea51a47b1e76b762caa4c1b0c356249e5e874 /arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | |
| parent | ce1a5ea18ef9bf4c62c75abe7c540a29264ec988 (diff) | |
| parent | d1fdb6d8f6a4109a4263176c84b899076a5f8008 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v5.2-rc4' into mauro
We need to pick up post-rc1 changes to various document files so they don't
get lost in Mauro's massive RST conversion push.
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h index 039fbd822ec6..92b6b7cf67dd 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h @@ -718,12 +718,11 @@ USER(\label, ic ivau, \tmp2) // invalidate I line PoU * the output section, any use of such directives is undefined. * * The yield itself consists of the following: - * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1, in which case disabling - * preemption once will make the task preemptible. If this is not the case, - * yielding is pointless. - * - Check whether TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, and if so, disable and re-enable - * kernel mode NEON (which will trigger a reschedule), and branch to the - * yield fixup code. + * - Check whether the preempt count is exactly 1 and a reschedule is also + * needed. If so, calling of preempt_enable() in kernel_neon_end() will + * trigger a reschedule. If it is not the case, yielding is pointless. + * - Disable and re-enable kernel mode NEON, and branch to the yield fixup + * code. * * This macro sequence may clobber all CPU state that is not guaranteed by the * AAPCS to be preserved across an ordinary function call. |