Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed May 02 2018 - 08:23:00 EST


On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 03:53:21PM +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> Set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT for arm64. This
> enables Speculative Page Fault handler.

Are there are tests for this? I'm really nervous about enabling it...

Will

>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch is on top of Laurent's v10 spf
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index eb2cf49..cd583a9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ config ARM64
> select SPARSE_IRQ
> select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
> select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
> + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT if SMP
> help
> ARM 64-bit (AArch64) Linux support.
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>