linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC v2 rcu 6/8] arch/arm64: Add ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU

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Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:07:29 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 rcu 6/8] arch/arm64: Add ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS Kconfig option

The arm64 architecture uses either an LL/SC loop (old systems) or an LSE
stadd instruction (new systems) to implement this_cpu_add(), both of which
are NMI safe.  This means that the old and more-efficient srcu_read_lock()
may be used in NMI context, without the need for srcu_read_lock_nmisafe().
Therefore, add the new Kconfig option ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS to
arch/arm64/Kconfig, which will cause NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE to be deselected,
thus preserving the current srcu_read_lock() behavior.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220910221947.171557773@linutronix.de/

Suggested-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 571cc234d0b3..664725a0b5dd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config ARM64
 	select ARCH_HAS_KCOV
 	select ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
 	select ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
+	select ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS
 	select ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE
 	select ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
 	select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23