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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S, branch v4.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove fp_enable() and vec_enable(), use msr_check_and_{set, clear}()</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T02:52:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T00:44:07+00:00</published>
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<id>1f2e25b2d552cade43eacb2edc4e7f01c1cfecb3</id>
<content type='text'>
More consolidation of our MSR available bit handling.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
More consolidation of our MSR available bit handling.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move part of giveup_vsx into c</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T02:52:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T00:44:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a7d623d4d053ccb0cdfad210bced2ec25ddf69a2'/>
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<content type='text'>
Move the MSR modification into c. Removing it from the assembly
function will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes by batching them
up.

Check the FP and VMX bits before calling the relevant giveup_*()
function. This makes giveup_vsx() and flush_vsx_to_thread() perform
more like their sister functions, and allows us to use
flush_vsx_to_thread() in the signal code.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check in.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<pre>
Move the MSR modification into c. Removing it from the assembly
function will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes by batching them
up.

Check the FP and VMX bits before calling the relevant giveup_*()
function. This makes giveup_vsx() and flush_vsx_to_thread() perform
more like their sister functions, and allows us to use
flush_vsx_to_thread() in the signal code.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check in.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Move part of giveup_fpu,altivec,spe into c</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T02:52:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T00:44:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=98da581e0846f6d932a4bc46a55458140e20478a'/>
<id>98da581e0846f6d932a4bc46a55458140e20478a</id>
<content type='text'>
Move the MSR modification into new c functions. Removing it from
the low level functions will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes
by batching them up.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check into these new functions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Move the MSR modification into new c functions. Removing it from
the low level functions will allow us to avoid costly MSR writes
by batching them up.

Move the check_if_tm_restore_required() check into these new functions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove NULL task struct pointer checks in FP and vector code</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T02:52:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T00:44:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b51b1153d0e78a70767441273331d2de066bb929'/>
<id>b51b1153d0e78a70767441273331d2de066bb929</id>
<content type='text'>
We used to allow giveup_*() to be called with a NULL task struct
pointer. Now those cases are handled in the caller we can remove
the checks. We can also remove giveup_altivec_notask() which is also
unused.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
We used to allow giveup_*() to be called with a NULL task struct
pointer. Now those cases are handled in the caller we can remove
the checks. We can also remove giveup_altivec_notask() which is also
unused.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Remove UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T02:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T00:43:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=af1bbc3dd3d501d27da72e1764afe5f5b0d3882d'/>
<id>af1bbc3dd3d501d27da72e1764afe5f5b0d3882d</id>
<content type='text'>
The UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations were written
back when SMP was not common, and neither glibc nor gcc used vector
instructions. Now SMP is very common, glibc aggressively uses vector
instructions and gcc autovectorises.

We want to add new optimisations that apply to both UP and SMP, but
in preparation for that remove these UP only optimisations.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The UP only lazy floating point and vector optimisations were written
back when SMP was not common, and neither glibc nor gcc used vector
instructions. Now SMP is very common, glibc aggressively uses vector
instructions and gcc autovectorises.

We want to add new optimisations that apply to both UP and SMP, but
in preparation for that remove these UP only optimisations.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't disable MSR bits in do_load_up_transact_*() functions</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T02:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-29T00:43:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=af72ab646a6bee724f190820e8f56497a5b635f0'/>
<id>af72ab646a6bee724f190820e8f56497a5b635f0</id>
<content type='text'>
Similar to the non TM load_up_*() functions, don't disable the MSR
bits on the way out.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Similar to the non TM load_up_*() functions, don't disable the MSR
bits on the way out.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Change vrX register defines to vX to match gcc and glibc</title>
<updated>2015-03-16T07:32:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-09T22:51:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c2ce6f9f3dc00daca5714ef070a9a2d4e78eb336'/>
<id>c2ce6f9f3dc00daca5714ef070a9a2d4e78eb336</id>
<content type='text'>
As our various loops (copy, string, crypto etc) get more complicated,
we want to share implementations between userspace (eg glibc) and
the kernel. We also want to write userspace test harnesses to put
in tools/testing/selftest.

One gratuitous difference between userspace and the kernel is the
VMX register definitions - the kernel uses vrX whereas both gcc and
glibc use vX.

Change the kernel to match userspace.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
As our various loops (copy, string, crypto etc) get more complicated,
we want to share implementations between userspace (eg glibc) and
the kernel. We also want to write userspace test harnesses to put
in tools/testing/selftest.

One gratuitous difference between userspace and the kernel is the
VMX register definitions - the kernel uses vrX whereas both gcc and
glibc use vX.

Change the kernel to match userspace.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't corrupt transactional state when using FP/VMX in kernel</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T02:59:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-13T04:56:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d31626f70b6103f4d9153b75d07e0e8795728cc9'/>
<id>d31626f70b6103f4d9153b75d07e0e8795728cc9</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state.  This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8.  The test program below demonstrates the bug.

The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr.  However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state.  Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled.  The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.

Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.

In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state().  The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.

The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).

Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.

This is the test program:

/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
 *
 * See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
 * kernel vmx copy loops.
 *
 *   gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
 *
 */

/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long double vecin = 1.3;
	long double vecout;
	unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
	int i;
	int fd;
	int size = pgsize*16;
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
	char buf[pgsize];
	char *a;
	uint64_t aborted = 0;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	assert(fd &gt;= 0);

	memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; size; i += pgsize)
		assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);

	unlink(tmpfile);

	a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
	assert(a != MAP_FAILED);

	asm __volatile__(
		"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
		TBEGIN
		"beq	3f ;"
		TSUSPEND
		"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
		"std	5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
		TABORT
		TRESUME
		TEND
		"li	%[res], 0 ;"
		"b	5f ;"
		"3: ;" // Abort handler
		"li	%[res], 1 ;"
		"5: ;"
		"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
		: [res]"=r"(aborted)
		: [vecinptr]"r"(&amp;vecin),
		  [vecoutptr]"r"(&amp;vecout),
		  [map]"r"(a)
		: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");

	if (aborted &amp;&amp; (vecin != vecout)){
		printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
		       (double)vecin, (double)vecout);
		exit(1);
	}

	munmap(a, size);

	close(fd);

	printf("PASSED!\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Currently, when we have a process using the transactional memory
facilities on POWER8 (that is, the processor is in transactional
or suspended state), and the process enters the kernel and the
kernel then uses the floating-point or vector (VMX/Altivec) facility,
we end up corrupting the user-visible FP/VMX/VSX state.  This
happens, for example, if a page fault causes a copy-on-write
operation, because the copy_page function will use VMX to do the
copy on POWER8.  The test program below demonstrates the bug.

The bug happens because when FP/VMX state for a transactional process
is stored in the thread_struct, we store the checkpointed state in
.fp_state/.vr_state and the transactional (current) state in
.transact_fp/.transact_vr.  However, when the kernel wants to use
FP/VMX, it calls enable_kernel_fp() or enable_kernel_altivec(),
which saves the current state in .fp_state/.vr_state.  Furthermore,
when we return to the user process we return with FP/VMX/VSX
disabled.  The next time the process uses FP/VMX/VSX, we don't know
which set of state (the current register values, .fp_state/.vr_state,
or .transact_fp/.transact_vr) we should be using, since we have no
way to tell if we are still in the same transaction, and if not,
whether the previous transaction succeeded or failed.

Thus it is necessary to strictly adhere to the rule that if FP has
been enabled at any point in a transaction, we must keep FP enabled
for the user process with the current transactional state in the
FP registers, until we detect that it is no longer in a transaction.
Similarly for VMX; once enabled it must stay enabled until the
process is no longer transactional.

In order to keep this rule, we add a new thread_info flag which we
test when returning from the kernel to userspace, called TIF_RESTORE_TM.
This flag indicates that there is FP/VMX/VSX state to be restored
before entering userspace, and when it is set the .tm_orig_msr field
in the thread_struct indicates what state needs to be restored.
The restoration is done by restore_tm_state().  The TIF_RESTORE_TM
bit is set by new giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional helpers,
which are called from enable_kernel_fp/altivec, giveup_vsx, and
flush_fp/altivec_to_thread instead of giveup_fpu/altivec.

The other thing to be done is to get the transactional FP/VMX/VSX
state from .fp_state/.vr_state when doing reclaim, if that state
has been saved there by giveup_fpu/altivec_maybe_transactional.
Having done this, we set the FP/VMX bit in the thread's MSR after
reclaim to indicate that that part of the state is now valid
(having been reclaimed from the processor's checkpointed state).

Finally, in the signal handling code, we move the clearing of the
transactional state bits in the thread's MSR a bit earlier, before
calling flush_fp_to_thread(), so that we don't unnecessarily set
the TIF_RESTORE_TM bit.

This is the test program:

/* Michael Neuling 4/12/2013
 *
 * See if the altivec state is leaked out of an aborted transaction due to
 * kernel vmx copy loops.
 *
 *   gcc -m64 htm_vmxcopy.c -o htm_vmxcopy
 *
 */

/* We don't use all of these, but for reference: */

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	long double vecin = 1.3;
	long double vecout;
	unsigned long pgsize = getpagesize();
	int i;
	int fd;
	int size = pgsize*16;
	char tmpfile[] = "/tmp/page_faultXXXXXX";
	char buf[pgsize];
	char *a;
	uint64_t aborted = 0;

	fd = mkstemp(tmpfile);
	assert(fd &gt;= 0);

	memset(buf, 0, pgsize);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; size; i += pgsize)
		assert(write(fd, buf, pgsize) == pgsize);

	unlink(tmpfile);

	a = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
	assert(a != MAP_FAILED);

	asm __volatile__(
		"lxvd2x 40,0,%[vecinptr] ; " // set 40 to initial value
		TBEGIN
		"beq	3f ;"
		TSUSPEND
		"xxlxor 40,40,40 ; " // set 40 to 0
		"std	5, 0(%[map]) ;" // cause kernel vmx copy page
		TABORT
		TRESUME
		TEND
		"li	%[res], 0 ;"
		"b	5f ;"
		"3: ;" // Abort handler
		"li	%[res], 1 ;"
		"5: ;"
		"stxvd2x 40,0,%[vecoutptr] ; "
		: [res]"=r"(aborted)
		: [vecinptr]"r"(&amp;vecin),
		  [vecoutptr]"r"(&amp;vecout),
		  [map]"r"(a)
		: "memory", "r0", "r3", "r4", "r5", "r6", "r7");

	if (aborted &amp;&amp; (vecin != vecout)){
		printf("FAILED: vector state leaked on abort %f != %f\n",
		       (double)vecin, (double)vecout);
		exit(1);
	}

	munmap(a, size);

	close(fd);

	printf("PASSED!\n");
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Don't corrupt user registers on 32-bit</title>
<updated>2013-10-23T11:34:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-23T08:40:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=955c1cab809edfb5429603c68493363074ac20cf'/>
<id>955c1cab809edfb5429603c68493363074ac20cf</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit de79f7b9f6 ("powerpc: Put FP/VSX and VR state into structures")
modified load_up_fpu() and load_up_altivec() in such a way that they
now use r7 and r8.  Unfortunately, the callers of these functions on
32-bit machines then return to userspace via fast_exception_return,
which doesn't restore all of the volatile GPRs, but only r1, r3 -- r6
and r9 -- r12.  This was causing userspace segfaults and other
userspace misbehaviour on 32-bit machines.

This fixes the problem by changing the register usage of load_up_fpu()
and load_up_altivec() to avoid using r7 and r8 and instead use r6 and
r10.  This also adds comments to those functions saying which registers
may be used.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Tested-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt; (on e500mc, so no altivec)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Commit de79f7b9f6 ("powerpc: Put FP/VSX and VR state into structures")
modified load_up_fpu() and load_up_altivec() in such a way that they
now use r7 and r8.  Unfortunately, the callers of these functions on
32-bit machines then return to userspace via fast_exception_return,
which doesn't restore all of the volatile GPRs, but only r1, r3 -- r6
and r9 -- r12.  This was causing userspace segfaults and other
userspace misbehaviour on 32-bit machines.

This fixes the problem by changing the register usage of load_up_fpu()
and load_up_altivec() to avoid using r7 and r8 and instead use r6 and
r10.  This also adds comments to those functions saying which registers
may be used.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Tested-by: Scott Wood &lt;scottwood@freescale.com&gt; (on e500mc, so no altivec)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Provide for giveup_fpu/altivec to save state in alternate location</title>
<updated>2013-10-11T06:26:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
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<published>2013-09-10T10:21:10+00:00</published>
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This provides a facility which is intended for use by KVM, where the
contents of the FP/VSX and VMX (Altivec) registers can be saved away
to somewhere other than the thread_struct when kernel code wants to
use floating point or VMX instructions.  This is done by providing a
pointer in the thread_struct to indicate where the state should be
saved to.  The giveup_fpu() and giveup_altivec() functions test these
pointers and save state to the indicated location if they are non-NULL.
Note that the MSR_FP/VEC bits in task-&gt;thread.regs-&gt;msr are still used
to indicate whether the CPU register state is live, even when an
alternate save location is being used.

This also provides load_fp_state() and load_vr_state() functions, which
load up FP/VSX and VMX state from memory into the CPU registers, and
corresponding store_fp_state() and store_vr_state() functions, which
store FP/VSX and VMX state into memory from the CPU registers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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This provides a facility which is intended for use by KVM, where the
contents of the FP/VSX and VMX (Altivec) registers can be saved away
to somewhere other than the thread_struct when kernel code wants to
use floating point or VMX instructions.  This is done by providing a
pointer in the thread_struct to indicate where the state should be
saved to.  The giveup_fpu() and giveup_altivec() functions test these
pointers and save state to the indicated location if they are non-NULL.
Note that the MSR_FP/VEC bits in task-&gt;thread.regs-&gt;msr are still used
to indicate whether the CPU register state is live, even when an
alternate save location is being used.

This also provides load_fp_state() and load_vr_state() functions, which
load up FP/VSX and VMX state from memory into the CPU registers, and
corresponding store_fp_state() and store_vr_state() functions, which
store FP/VSX and VMX state into memory from the CPU registers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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