On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:01:33AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Could we make the domains usage a run-time feature based on the
> architecture version? For ARMv7, we need to have the vectors page
> read-only anyway if the SWP emulation is enabled (and I posted a
> simple patch in a reply to your email).
>
> The issue I see is that ARM11MPCore is reported as v7 though we still
> use domains on this processor (we could always remove the domains if
> TLS register is available or use some more precise architecture
> version identification).
We could also do the below, which I think is more logical - SWP emulation
requires that CPU domains aren't enabled, so let's make that explicit
in the Kconfig.
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index c9d2d56..7ea482b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ config ARM_THUMBEE
config SWP_EMULATE
bool "Emulate SWP/SWPB instructions"
- depends on CPU_V7 && !CPU_V6
+ depends on !CPU_USE_DOMAINS && CPU_V7 && !CPU_V6
select HAVE_PROC_CPU if PROC_FS
default y if SMP
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