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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c, branch linux-5.2.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 234</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-03T05:44:50+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
  licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
  licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Fix missing SVE/FPSIMD endianness conversions</title>
<updated>2019-06-13T09:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-12T16:00:32+00:00</published>
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The in-memory representation of SVE and FPSIMD registers is
different: the FPSIMD V-registers are stored as single 128-bit
host-endian values, whereas SVE registers are stored in an
endianness-invariant byte order.

This means that the two representations differ when running on a
big-endian host.  But we blindly copy data from one representation
to another when converting between the two, resulting in the
register contents being unintentionally byteswapped in certain
situations.  Currently this can be triggered by the first SVE
instruction after a syscall, for example (though the potential
trigger points may vary in future).

So, fix the conversion functions fpsimd_to_sve(), sve_to_fpsimd()
and sve_sync_from_fpsimd_zeropad() to swab where appropriate.

There is no common swahl128() or swab128() that we could use here.
Maybe it would be worth making this generic, but for now add a
simple local hack.

Since the byte order differences are exposed in ABI, also clarify
the documentation.

Cc: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Hayward &lt;alan.hayward@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: bc0ee4760364 ("arm64/sve: Core task context handling")
Fixes: 8cd969d28fd2 ("arm64/sve: Signal handling support")
Fixes: 43d4da2c45b2 ("arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
[will: Fix typos in comments and docs spotted by Julien]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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The in-memory representation of SVE and FPSIMD registers is
different: the FPSIMD V-registers are stored as single 128-bit
host-endian values, whereas SVE registers are stored in an
endianness-invariant byte order.

This means that the two representations differ when running on a
big-endian host.  But we blindly copy data from one representation
to another when converting between the two, resulting in the
register contents being unintentionally byteswapped in certain
situations.  Currently this can be triggered by the first SVE
instruction after a syscall, for example (though the potential
trigger points may vary in future).

So, fix the conversion functions fpsimd_to_sve(), sve_to_fpsimd()
and sve_sync_from_fpsimd_zeropad() to swab where appropriate.

There is no common swahl128() or swab128() that we could use here.
Maybe it would be worth making this generic, but for now add a
simple local hack.

Since the byte order differences are exposed in ABI, also clarify
the documentation.

Cc: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Maydell &lt;peter.maydell@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Hayward &lt;alan.hayward@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: bc0ee4760364 ("arm64/sve: Core task context handling")
Fixes: 8cd969d28fd2 ("arm64/sve: Signal handling support")
Fixes: 43d4da2c45b2 ("arm64/sve: ptrace and ELF coredump support")
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
[will: Fix typos in comments and docs spotted by Julien]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2019-05-17T17:33:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-17T17:33:30+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests
   - PMU improvements

  POWER:
   - support for direct access to the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller
   - memory and performance optimizations

  x86:
   - support for accessing memory not backed by struct page
   - fixes and refactoring

  Generic:
   - dirty page tracking improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (155 commits)
  kvm: fix compilation on aarch64
  Revert "KVM: nVMX: Expose RDPMC-exiting only when guest supports PMU"
  kvm: x86: Fix L1TF mitigation for shadow MMU
  KVM: nVMX: Disable intercept for FS/GS base MSRs in vmcs02 when possible
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Remove useless checks in 'release' method of KVM device
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Fix spelling mistake "acessing" -&gt; "accessing"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure to load LPID for radix VCPUs
  kvm: nVMX: Set nested_run_pending in vmx_set_nested_state after checks complete
  tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
  KVM: nVMX: KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE - Tear down old EVMCS state before setting new state
  tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS and KVM_CAP_MAX_CPU_ID
  tests: kvm: Add tests to .gitignore
  KVM: Introduce KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2
  KVM: Fix kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect off-by-(minus-)one
  KVM: Fix the bitmap range to copy during clear dirty
  KVM: arm64: Fix ptrauth ID register masking logic
  KVM: x86: use direct accessors for RIP and RSP
  KVM: VMX: Use accessors for GPRs outside of dedicated caching logic
  KVM: x86: Omit caching logic for always-available GPRs
  kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests
   - PMU improvements

  POWER:
   - support for direct access to the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller
   - memory and performance optimizations

  x86:
   - support for accessing memory not backed by struct page
   - fixes and refactoring

  Generic:
   - dirty page tracking improvements"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (155 commits)
  kvm: fix compilation on aarch64
  Revert "KVM: nVMX: Expose RDPMC-exiting only when guest supports PMU"
  kvm: x86: Fix L1TF mitigation for shadow MMU
  KVM: nVMX: Disable intercept for FS/GS base MSRs in vmcs02 when possible
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Remove useless checks in 'release' method of KVM device
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Fix spelling mistake "acessing" -&gt; "accessing"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure to load LPID for radix VCPUs
  kvm: nVMX: Set nested_run_pending in vmx_set_nested_state after checks complete
  tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
  KVM: nVMX: KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE - Tear down old EVMCS state before setting new state
  tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS and KVM_CAP_MAX_CPU_ID
  tests: kvm: Add tests to .gitignore
  KVM: Introduce KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2
  KVM: Fix kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect off-by-(minus-)one
  KVM: Fix the bitmap range to copy during clear dirty
  KVM: arm64: Fix ptrauth ID register masking logic
  KVM: x86: use direct accessors for RIP and RSP
  KVM: VMX: Use accessors for GPRs outside of dedicated caching logic
  KVM: x86: Omit caching logic for always-available GPRs
  kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Clarify vq map semantics</title>
<updated>2019-04-18T16:14:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-11T15:53:18+00:00</published>
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Currently the meanings of sve_vq_map and the ancillary helpers
__bit_to_vq() and __vq_to_bit() are not clearly explained.

This patch makes the explanatory comment clearer, and removes the
duplicate comment from fpsimd.h.

The WARN_ON() currently present in __bit_to_vq() confuses the
intended use of this helper.  Since these are low-level helpers not
intended for general-purpose use anyway, it is better not to make
guesses about how these functions will be used: rather, this patch
removes the WARN_ON() and relies on callers to use the helpers
sensibly.

Suggested-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Currently the meanings of sve_vq_map and the ancillary helpers
__bit_to_vq() and __vq_to_bit() are not clearly explained.

This patch makes the explanatory comment clearer, and removes the
duplicate comment from fpsimd.h.

The WARN_ON() currently present in __bit_to_vq() confuses the
intended use of this helper.  Since these are low-level helpers not
intended for general-purpose use anyway, it is better not to make
guesses about how these functions will be used: rather, this patch
removes the WARN_ON() and relies on callers to use the helpers
sensibly.

Suggested-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: HWCAP: add support for AT_HWCAP2</title>
<updated>2019-04-16T15:27:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Murray</name>
<email>andrew.murray@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-09T09:52:40+00:00</published>
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As we will exhaust the first 32 bits of AT_HWCAP let's start
exposing AT_HWCAP2 to userspace to give us up to 64 caps.

Whilst it's possible to use the remaining 32 bits of AT_HWCAP, we
prefer to expand into AT_HWCAP2 in order to provide a consistent
view to userspace between ILP32 and LP64. However internal to the
kernel we prefer to continue to use the full space of elf_hwcap.

To reduce complexity and allow for future expansion, we now
represent hwcaps in the kernel as ordinals and use a
KERNEL_HWCAP_ prefix. This allows us to support automatic feature
based module loading for all our hwcaps.

We introduce cpu_set_feature to set hwcaps which complements the
existing cpu_have_feature helper. These helpers allow us to clean
up existing direct uses of elf_hwcap and reduce any future effort
required to move beyond 64 caps.

For convenience we also introduce cpu_{have,set}_named_feature which
makes use of the cpu_feature macro to allow providing a hwcap name
without a {KERNEL_}HWCAP_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray &lt;andrew.murray@arm.com&gt;
[will: use const_ilog2() and tweak documentation]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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As we will exhaust the first 32 bits of AT_HWCAP let's start
exposing AT_HWCAP2 to userspace to give us up to 64 caps.

Whilst it's possible to use the remaining 32 bits of AT_HWCAP, we
prefer to expand into AT_HWCAP2 in order to provide a consistent
view to userspace between ILP32 and LP64. However internal to the
kernel we prefer to continue to use the full space of elf_hwcap.

To reduce complexity and allow for future expansion, we now
represent hwcaps in the kernel as ordinals and use a
KERNEL_HWCAP_ prefix. This allows us to support automatic feature
based module loading for all our hwcaps.

We introduce cpu_set_feature to set hwcaps which complements the
existing cpu_have_feature helper. These helpers allow us to clean
up existing direct uses of elf_hwcap and reduce any future effort
required to move beyond 64 caps.

For convenience we also introduce cpu_{have,set}_named_feature which
makes use of the cpu_feature macro to allow providing a hwcap name
without a {KERNEL_}HWCAP_ prefix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray &lt;andrew.murray@arm.com&gt;
[will: use const_ilog2() and tweak documentation]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: In-kernel vector length availability query interface</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T14:41:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-28T13:39:21+00:00</published>
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KVM will need to interrogate the set of SVE vector lengths
available on the system.

This patch exposes the relevant bits to the kernel, along with a
sve_vq_available() helper to check whether a particular vector
length is supported.

__vq_to_bit() and __bit_to_vq() are not intended for use outside
these functions: now that these are exposed outside fpsimd.c, they
are prefixed with __ in order to provide an extra hint that they
are not intended for general-purpose use.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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KVM will need to interrogate the set of SVE vector lengths
available on the system.

This patch exposes the relevant bits to the kernel, along with a
sve_vq_available() helper to check whether a particular vector
length is supported.

__vq_to_bit() and __bit_to_vq() are not intended for use outside
these functions: now that these are exposed outside fpsimd.c, they
are prefixed with __ in order to provide an extra hint that they
are not intended for general-purpose use.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Enable SVE state tracking for non-task contexts</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T14:41:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-28T13:39:11+00:00</published>
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The current FPSIMD/SVE context handling support for non-task (i.e.,
KVM vcpu) contexts does not take SVE into account.  This means that
only task contexts can safely use SVE at present.

In preparation for enabling KVM guests to use SVE, it is necessary
to keep track of SVE state for non-task contexts too.

This patch adds the necessary support, removing assumptions from
the context switch code about the location of the SVE context
storage.

When binding a vcpu context, its vector length is arbitrarily
specified as SVE_VL_MIN for now.  In any case, because TIF_SVE is
presently cleared at vcpu context bind time, the specified vector
length will not be used for anything yet.  In later patches TIF_SVE
will be set here as appropriate, and the appropriate maximum vector
length for the vcpu will be passed when binding.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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The current FPSIMD/SVE context handling support for non-task (i.e.,
KVM vcpu) contexts does not take SVE into account.  This means that
only task contexts can safely use SVE at present.

In preparation for enabling KVM guests to use SVE, it is necessary
to keep track of SVE state for non-task contexts too.

This patch adds the necessary support, removing assumptions from
the context switch code about the location of the SVE context
storage.

When binding a vcpu context, its vector length is arbitrarily
specified as SVE_VL_MIN for now.  In any case, because TIF_SVE is
presently cleared at vcpu context bind time, the specified vector
length will not be used for anything yet.  In later patches TIF_SVE
will be set here as appropriate, and the appropriate maximum vector
length for the vcpu will be passed when binding.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Check SVE virtualisability</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T14:41:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-28T13:39:10+00:00</published>
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Due to the way the effective SVE vector length is controlled and
trapped at different exception levels, certain mismatches in the
sets of vector lengths supported by different physical CPUs in the
system may prevent straightforward virtualisation of SVE at parity
with the host.

This patch analyses the extent to which SVE can be virtualised
safely without interfering with migration of vcpus between physical
CPUs, and rejects late secondary CPUs that would erode the
situation further.

It is left up to KVM to decide what to do with this information.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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Due to the way the effective SVE vector length is controlled and
trapped at different exception levels, certain mismatches in the
sets of vector lengths supported by different physical CPUs in the
system may prevent straightforward virtualisation of SVE at parity
with the host.

This patch analyses the extent to which SVE can be virtualised
safely without interfering with migration of vcpus between physical
CPUs, and rejects late secondary CPUs that would erode the
situation further.

It is left up to KVM to decide what to do with this information.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Clarify role of the VQ map maintenance functions</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T14:41:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-06T16:32:35+00:00</published>
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The roles of sve_init_vq_map(), sve_update_vq_map() and
sve_verify_vq_map() are highly non-obvious to anyone who has not dug
through cpufeatures.c in detail.

Since the way these functions interact with each other is more
important here than a full understanding of the cpufeatures code, this
patch adds comments to make the functions' roles clearer.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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The roles of sve_init_vq_map(), sve_update_vq_map() and
sve_verify_vq_map() are highly non-obvious to anyone who has not dug
through cpufeatures.c in detail.

Since the way these functions interact with each other is more
important here than a full understanding of the cpufeatures code, this
patch adds comments to make the functions' roles clearer.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: fpsimd: Always set TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE on task state flush</title>
<updated>2019-03-29T14:41:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-28T13:39:05+00:00</published>
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This patch updates fpsimd_flush_task_state() to mirror the new
semantics of fpsimd_flush_cpu_state() introduced by commit
d8ad71fa38a9 ("arm64: fpsimd: Fix TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE after
invalidating cpu regs").  Both functions now implicitly set
TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE to indicate that the task's FPSIMD state is not
loaded into the cpu.

As a side-effect, fpsimd_flush_task_state() now sets
TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE even for non-running tasks.  In the case of
non-running tasks this is not useful but also harmless, because the
flag is live only while the corresponding task is running.  This
function is not called from fast paths, so special-casing this for
the task == current case is not really worth it.

Compiler barriers previously present in restore_sve_fpsimd_context()
are pulled into fpsimd_flush_task_state() so that it can be safely
called with preemption enabled if necessary.

Explicit calls to set TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE that accompany
fpsimd_flush_task_state() calls and are now redundant are removed
as appropriate.

fpsimd_flush_task_state() is used to get exclusive access to the
representation of the task's state via task_struct, for the purpose
of replacing the state.  Thus, the call to this function should
happen before manipulating fpsimd_state or sve_state etc. in
task_struct.  Anomalous cases are reordered appropriately in order
to make the code more consistent, although there should be no
functional difference since these cases are protected by
local_bh_disable() anyway.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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This patch updates fpsimd_flush_task_state() to mirror the new
semantics of fpsimd_flush_cpu_state() introduced by commit
d8ad71fa38a9 ("arm64: fpsimd: Fix TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE after
invalidating cpu regs").  Both functions now implicitly set
TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE to indicate that the task's FPSIMD state is not
loaded into the cpu.

As a side-effect, fpsimd_flush_task_state() now sets
TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE even for non-running tasks.  In the case of
non-running tasks this is not useful but also harmless, because the
flag is live only while the corresponding task is running.  This
function is not called from fast paths, so special-casing this for
the task == current case is not really worth it.

Compiler barriers previously present in restore_sve_fpsimd_context()
are pulled into fpsimd_flush_task_state() so that it can be safely
called with preemption enabled if necessary.

Explicit calls to set TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE that accompany
fpsimd_flush_task_state() calls and are now redundant are removed
as appropriate.

fpsimd_flush_task_state() is used to get exclusive access to the
representation of the task's state via task_struct, for the purpose
of replacing the state.  Thus, the call to this function should
happen before manipulating fpsimd_state or sve_state etc. in
task_struct.  Anomalous cases are reordered appropriately in order
to make the code more consistent, although there should be no
functional difference since these cases are protected by
local_bh_disable() anyway.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée &lt;alex.bennee@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: zhang.lei &lt;zhang.lei@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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