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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-10-27 13:37:40 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2015-10-27 13:37:40 -0300
commitbadc0e42604c4465facd81d2323e98b3b1eb9188 (patch)
treee61811e7ddf70517f4b546d522ba3b630b38f50f /arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
parentf19866e5cb04f8f007cb422132ea4611cdacc8e3 (diff)
Linux-libre 4.2.4-gnupck-4.2.4-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/signal.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index 423663e23..586eef262 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -343,12 +343,17 @@ setup_return(struct pt_regs *regs, struct ksignal *ksig,
*/
thumb = handler & 1;
-#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 7
+#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6
/*
- * Clear the If-Then Thumb-2 execution state
- * ARM spec requires this to be all 000s in ARM mode
- * Snapdragon S4/Krait misbehaves on a Thumb=>ARM
- * signal transition without this.
+ * Clear the If-Then Thumb-2 execution state. ARM spec
+ * requires this to be all 000s in ARM mode. Snapdragon
+ * S4/Krait misbehaves on a Thumb=>ARM signal transition
+ * without this.
+ *
+ * We must do this whenever we are running on a Thumb-2
+ * capable CPU, which includes ARMv6T2. However, we elect
+ * to do this whenever we're on an ARMv6 or later CPU for
+ * simplicity.
*/
cpsr &= ~PSR_IT_MASK;
#endif