Re: Dovetail 5.10.y sync

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Giulio Moro <giulio@bela.io> writes:

> I am totally not involved with the change at hand, but it looks like it is related to this:
>
>  #define TIF_SIGPENDING		0	/* signal pending */
>  #define TIF_NEED_RESCHED	1	/* rescheduling necessary */
>  #define TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME	2	/* callback before returning to user */
>  #define TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE	3	/* CPU's FP state is not current's */
>  #define TIF_UPROBE		4	/* uprobe breakpoint or singlestep */
>  #define TIF_FSCHECK		5	/* Check FS is USER_DS on return */
>  #define TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT	6	/* MTE Asynchronous Tag Check Fault */
>  #define TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL	7	/* signal notifications exist */
>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE	8	/* syscall trace active */
>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT	9	/* syscall auditing */
>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT	10	/* syscall tracepoint for ftrace */
>  #define TIF_SECCOMP		11	/* syscall secure computing */
>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_EMU		12	/* syscall emulation active */
> +#define TIF_RETUSER		13	/* INBAND_TASK_RETUSER is pending */
>
> ...
>
>  #define _TIF_WORK_MASK		(_TIF_NEED_RESCHED | _TIF_SIGPENDING | \
>  				 _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME | _TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE | \
>  				 _TIF_UPROBE | _TIF_FSCHECK | _TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT | \
> -				 _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)
> +				 _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL | _TIF_RETUSER)
>
> as _TIF_RETUSER is (1 << 13), then _TIF_WORK_MASK no longer fits into 8 bits and can no longer be used as a flexible second operand to AND. Instead, it needs its dedicated MOV instruction.
>

That was indeed the reason for the change.

-- 
Philippe.