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    ARM: entry: instrument usr exception handlers with irqsoff tracing · bc089602
    Russell King 提交于
    As we no longer re-enable interrupts in these exception handlers, add
    the irqsoff tracing calls to them so that the kernel tracks the state
    more accurately.
    
    Note that these calls are conditional on IRQSOFF_TRACER:
    
      kernel ----------> user ---------> kernel
              ^ irqs enabled   ^ irqs disabled
    
    No kernel code can run on the local CPU until we've re-entered the
    kernel through one of the exception handlers - and userspace can not
    take any locks etc.  So, the kernel doesn't care about the IRQ mask
    state while userspace is running unless we're doing IRQ off latency
    tracing.  So, we can (and do) avoid the overhead of updating the IRQ
    mask state on every kernel->user and user->kernel transition.
    Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
    bc089602
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