Re: [patch V2 14/17] entry: Provide generic exit to usermode functionality

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On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:31 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Provide a generic facility to handle the exit to usermode work. That's
> > aimed to replace the pointlessly different copies in each architecture.
> 
> 
> >  /**
> > + * local_irq_enable_exit_to_user - Exit to user variant of local_irq_enable()
> > + * @ti_work:   Cached TIF flags gathered with interrupts disabled
> > + *
> > + * Defaults to local_irq_enable(). Can be supplied by architecture specific
> > + * code.
> 
> What did you have in mind here?

Look at the previous version which had the ARM64 conversion. ARM64 does
magic different stuff vs. local_irq_enable() in the exit path. It's not
using the regular one. I'm happy to ditch that :)

Thanks,

	tglx



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