linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 4/4] ARM: kprobes: make more tests conditional

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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:25:49 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Tixy <tixy@...t.co.uk>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Leif Lindholm <Leif.Lindholm@....com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 4/4] ARM: kprobes: make more tests conditional

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:51:01AM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 18:41 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 August 2012, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > The ldrex/strex instructions are available on ARMv6.  It's only the d 
> > > > > variants (strexd/ldrexd) which are only available from ARMv6k.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok. How is the version below then? I haven't tested this one yet.
> > > 
> > > In fact, I think the b variants are ARMv6k+ as well.  Only the plain 
> > > (non b non d) variants are available on ARMv6.
> > 
> > Ok, third attempt then. This leaves ldrex for ARMv6 but marks
> > {st,ld}rex{b,h,d} as V6K specific (which includes ARMv7).
> 
> ARMv7 does set CPU_32v6K, because arch/arm/mm/Kconfig has
> 
> config CPU_V7
> 	bool "Support ARM V7 processor" if ARCH_INTEGRATOR || MACH_REALVIEW_EB || MACH_REALVIEW_PBX
> 	select CPU_32v6K
> 	select CPU_32v7
> 
> but this seems more for peripheral reasons not because all the various
> CPU configs systematically select the earlier architecture variants,
> e.g. CPU_V7 doesn't select CPU_32v6.
> 
> So I would have been inclined to test for
> 
> #if defined(CONFIG_CPU_32v6K) || (__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 7) 

FWIW, the selection of the optimised atomic64 implementation for ARM (which
uses the double-word exclusive instructions) boils down to CONFIG_CPU_32v6K,
so I think the additional __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ check is probably overkill.

Will
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