Re: [PATCH v12 04/31] arm64/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Tue Apr 16 2019 - 10:27:26 EST


On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:44:55PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> From: Mahendran Ganesh <opensource.ganesh@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT for arm64. This
> enables Speculative Page Fault handler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@xxxxxxxxx>

This is missing your S-o-B.

The first patch noted that the ARCH_SUPPORTS_* option was there because
the arch code had to make an explicit call to try to handle the fault
speculatively, but that isn't addeed until patch 30.

Why is this separate from that code?

Thanks,
Mark.

> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 870ef86a64ed..8e86934d598b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ config ARM64
> select SWIOTLB
> select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
> select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
> + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT
> help
> ARM 64-bit (AArch64) Linux support.
>
> --
> 2.21.0
>