ARM: 6867/1: Introduce THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY for copy_thread() hooks

This patch adds THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY for calling registered handlers
during the copy_thread() function call. It also changes the VFP handler
to use a switch statement rather than if..else and ignore this event.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

3 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_notify.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_notify.h
index c4391ba20350..1dc980675894 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_notify.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/thread_notify.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ static inline void thread_notify(unsigned long rc, struct thread_info *thread)
 #define THREAD_NOTIFY_FLUSH     0
 #define THREAD_NOTIFY_EXIT      1
 #define THREAD_NOTIFY_SWITCH    2
+#define THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY      3
 
 #endif
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index 94bbedbed639..5e1e54197227 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
         if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
                 thread->tp_value = regs->ARM_r3;
 
+        thread_notify(THREAD_NOTIFY_COPY, thread);
+
         return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
index bbf3da012afd..1c88bbdfd34d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
+++ b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
@@ -104,12 +104,17 @@ static void vfp_thread_exit(struct thread_info *thread)
 static int vfp_notifier(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long cmd, void *v)
 {
         struct thread_info *thread = v;
+        u32 fpexc;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+        unsigned int cpu;
+#endif
 
-        if (likely(cmd == THREAD_NOTIFY_SWITCH)) {
-                u32 fpexc = fmrx(FPEXC);
+        switch (cmd) {
+        case THREAD_NOTIFY_SWITCH:
+                fpexc = fmrx(FPEXC);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-                unsigned int cpu = thread->cpu;
+                cpu = thread->cpu;
 
                 /*
                  * On SMP, if VFP is enabled, save the old state in
@@ -134,13 +139,16 @@ static int vfp_notifier(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long cmd, void *v)
                  * old state.
                  */
                 fmxr(FPEXC, fpexc & ~FPEXC_EN);
-                return NOTIFY_DONE;
-        }
+                break;
 
-        if (cmd == THREAD_NOTIFY_FLUSH)
+        case THREAD_NOTIFY_FLUSH:
                 vfp_thread_flush(thread);
-        else
+                break;
+
+        case THREAD_NOTIFY_EXIT:
                 vfp_thread_exit(thread);
+                break;
+        }
 
         return NOTIFY_DONE;
 }