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Commit 3962446922 ("arm64: preempt: Provide our own implementation of
asm/preempt.h") extended the preempt count field in struct thread_info
to 64 bits, so that it consists of a 32-bit count plus a 32-bit flag
indicating whether or not the current task needs rescheduling.
Whilst the asm-offsets definition of TSK_TI_PREEMPT was updated to point
to this new field, the assembly usage was left untouched meaning that a
32-bit load from TSK_TI_PREEMPT on a big-endian machine actually returns
the reschedule flag instead of the count.
Whilst we could fix this by pointing TSK_TI_PREEMPT at the count field,
we're actually better off reworking the two assembly users so that they
operate on the whole 64-bit value in favour of inspecting the thread
flags separately in order to determine whether a reschedule is needed.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reported-by: "kernelci.org bot" <bot@kernelci.org>
Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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