a few prototypes like that in existence) and therefore access to
that required register must be emulated.
-config HAS_TLS_REG
- bool
- depends on !TLS_REG_EMUL
- default y if SMP || CPU_32v7
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- This selects support for the CP15 thread register.
- It is defined to be available on some ARMv6 processors (including
- all SMP capable ARMv6's) or later processors. User space may
- assume directly accessing that register and always obtain the
- expected value only on ARMv7 and above.
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config NEEDS_SYSCALL_FOR_CMPXCHG
bool
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