Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm: Replace CONFIG_HAS_TLS_REG with HWCAP_TLS and check for it on V6

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Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Also problematical with XIP - if we go down the route of implementing
> > these by copying code fragments into the kernel, we need to strip out
> > XIP support or implement a second way.  Obviously having a second way
> > adds maintainence burden, and the second way will probably lose out
> > on updates.
> 
> How about if we implement the default XIP-safe unoptimized functions,
> with minimal iffdeffery and then allow optional override for non-XIP
> kernels from mm/proc-*.S files?

That might be a plan for some things like cache maintenance - skip a
function call when not needed, call direct instead of indirect, but
for XIP that status quo must remain.

-- Jamie
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