Re: [PATCH v3 07/31] arm64: Process management

2012-09-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 07 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > The patch adds support for thread creation and context switching. The > context switching CPU specific code is introduced with the CPU support > patch (part of the arch/arm64/mm/proc.S file). AArch64 supports > ASID-tagged TLBs and the ASID can

[PATCH v3 07/31] arm64: Process management

2012-09-07 Thread Catalin Marinas
The patch adds support for thread creation and context switching. The context switching CPU specific code is introduced with the CPU support patch (part of the arch/arm64/mm/proc.S file). AArch64 supports ASID-tagged TLBs and the ASID can be either 8 or 16-bit wide (detectable via the ID_AA64AFR0_E