arm64: assembler: add cond_yield macro
Add a macro cond_yield that branches to a specified label when called if the TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag is set and decreasing the preempt count would make the task preemptible again, resulting in a schedule to occur. This can be used by kernel mode SIMD code that keeps a lot of state in SIMD registers, which would make chunking the input in order to perform the cond_resched() check from C code disproportionately costly. Signed-off-by:Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210203113626.220151-2-ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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