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-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/signal.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
index b6cda06b455f..7b8f2141427b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/signal.c
@@ -343,15 +343,18 @@ setup_return(struct pt_regs *regs, struct ksignal *ksig,
*/
thumb = handler & 1;
-#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 7
/*
- * 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 always do this to simplify the code; this field is
+ * marked UNK/SBZP for older architectures.
*/
cpsr &= ~PSR_IT_MASK;
-#endif
if (thumb) {
cpsr |= PSR_T_BIT;