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<title>arm64/sve: Use correct size when reinitialising SVE state</title>
<updated>2021-09-16T16:34:46+00:00</updated>
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<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2021-09-09T16:53:56+00:00</published>
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When we need a buffer for SVE register state we call sve_alloc() to make
sure that one is there. In order to avoid repeated allocations and frees
we keep the buffer around unless we change vector length and just memset()
it to ensure a clean register state. The function that deals with this
takes the task to operate on as an argument, however in the case where we
do a memset() we initialise using the SVE state size for the current task
rather than the task passed as an argument.

This is only an issue in the case where we are setting the register state
for a task via ptrace and the task being configured has a different vector
length to the task tracing it. In the case where the buffer is larger in
the traced process we will leak old state from the traced process to
itself, in the case where the buffer is smaller in the traced process we
will overflow the buffer and corrupt memory.

Fixes: bc0ee4760364 ("arm64/sve: Core task context handling")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.15.x
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210909165356.10675-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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When we need a buffer for SVE register state we call sve_alloc() to make
sure that one is there. In order to avoid repeated allocations and frees
we keep the buffer around unless we change vector length and just memset()
it to ensure a clean register state. The function that deals with this
takes the task to operate on as an argument, however in the case where we
do a memset() we initialise using the SVE state size for the current task
rather than the task passed as an argument.

This is only an issue in the case where we are setting the register state
for a task via ptrace and the task being configured has a different vector
length to the task tracing it. In the case where the buffer is larger in
the traced process we will leak old state from the traced process to
itself, in the case where the buffer is smaller in the traced process we
will overflow the buffer and corrupt memory.

Fixes: bc0ee4760364 ("arm64/sve: Core task context handling")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.15.x
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210909165356.10675-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Better handle failure to allocate SVE register storage</title>
<updated>2021-08-24T15:44:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2021-08-24T15:34:17+00:00</published>
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Currently we "handle" failure to allocate the SVE register storage by
doing a BUG_ON() and hoping for the best. This is obviously not great and
the memory allocation failure will already be loud enough without the
BUG_ON(). As the comment says it is a corner case but let's try to do a bit
better, remove the BUG_ON() and add code to handle the failure in the
callers.

For the ptrace and signal code we can return -ENOMEM gracefully however
we have no real error reporting path available to us for the SVE access
trap so instead generate a SIGKILL if the allocation fails there. This
at least means that we won't try to soldier on and end up trying to
access the nonexistant state and while it's obviously not ideal for
userspace SIGKILL doesn't allow any handling so minimises the ABI
impact, making it easier to improve the interface later if we come up
with a better idea.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210824153417.18371-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently we "handle" failure to allocate the SVE register storage by
doing a BUG_ON() and hoping for the best. This is obviously not great and
the memory allocation failure will already be loud enough without the
BUG_ON(). As the comment says it is a corner case but let's try to do a bit
better, remove the BUG_ON() and add code to handle the failure in the
callers.

For the ptrace and signal code we can return -ENOMEM gracefully however
we have no real error reporting path available to us for the SVE access
trap so instead generate a SIGKILL if the allocation fails there. This
at least means that we won't try to soldier on and end up trying to
access the nonexistant state and while it's obviously not ideal for
userspace SIGKILL doesn't allow any handling so minimises the ABI
impact, making it easier to improve the interface later if we come up
with a better idea.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210824153417.18371-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Make fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu() static</title>
<updated>2021-08-02T16:48:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T16:58:46+00:00</published>
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This function is not referenced outside fpsimd.c so can be static, making
it that little bit easier to follow what is called from where.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730165846.18558-1-broonie@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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This function is not referenced outside fpsimd.c so can be static, making
it that little bit easier to follow what is called from where.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730165846.18558-1-broonie@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Skip flushing Z registers with 128 bit vectors</title>
<updated>2021-05-26T19:04:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-12T15:11:31+00:00</published>
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When the SVE vector length is 128 bits then there are no bits in the Z
registers which are not shared with the V registers so we can skip them
when zeroing state not shared with FPSIMD, this results in a minor
performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512151131.27877-4-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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When the SVE vector length is 128 bits then there are no bits in the Z
registers which are not shared with the V registers so we can skip them
when zeroing state not shared with FPSIMD, this results in a minor
performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512151131.27877-4-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/kselftest', 'for-next/xntable', 'for-next/vdso', 'for-next/fiq', 'for-next/epan', 'for-next/kasan-vmalloc', 'for-next/fgt-boot-init', 'for-next/vhe-only' and 'for-next/neon-softirqs-disabled', remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2021-04-15T13:00:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-15T13:00:38+00:00</published>
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* for-next/misc:
  : Miscellaneous patches
  arm64/sve: Add compile time checks for SVE hooks in generic functions
  arm64/kernel/probes: Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.
  arm64/sve: Remove redundant system_supports_sve() tests
  arm64: mte: Remove unused mte_assign_mem_tag_range()
  arm64: Add __init section marker to some functions
  arm64/sve: Rework SVE access trap to convert state in registers
  docs: arm64: Fix a grammar error
  arm64: smp: Add missing prototype for some smp.c functions
  arm64: setup: name `tcr` register
  arm64: setup: name `mair` register
  arm64: stacktrace: Move start_backtrace() out of the header
  arm64: barrier: Remove spec_bar() macro
  arm64: entry: remove test_irqs_unmasked macro
  ARM64: enable GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
  arm64: defconfig: Use DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED

* for-next/kselftest:
  : Various kselftests for arm64
  kselftest: arm64: Add BTI tests
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Report filename on failing temp file creation
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Fix clang warning
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Makefile: Fix clang compilation
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Output warning about failing compiler
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Use cross-compiler if specified
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Fix MTE feature detection
  kselftest/arm64: mte: common: Fix write() warnings
  kselftest/arm64: mte: user_mem: Fix write() warning
  kselftest/arm64: mte: ksm_options: Fix fscanf warning
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Fix pthread linking
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Fix compilation with native compiler

* for-next/xntable:
  : Add hierarchical XN permissions for all page tables
  arm64: mm: use XN table mapping attributes for user/kernel mappings
  arm64: mm: use XN table mapping attributes for the linear region
  arm64: mm: add missing P4D definitions and use them consistently

* for-next/vdso:
  : Minor improvements to the compat vdso and sigpage
  arm64: compat: Poison the compat sigpage
  arm64: vdso: Avoid ISB after reading from cntvct_el0
  arm64: compat: Allow signal page to be remapped
  arm64: vdso: Remove redundant calls to flush_dcache_page()
  arm64: vdso: Use GFP_KERNEL for allocating compat vdso and signal pages

* for-next/fiq:
  : Support arm64 FIQ controller registration
  arm64: irq: allow FIQs to be handled
  arm64: Always keep DAIF.[IF] in sync
  arm64: entry: factor irq triage logic into macros
  arm64: irq: rework root IRQ handler registration
  arm64: don't use GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER
  genirq: Allow architectures to override set_handle_irq() fallback

* for-next/epan:
  : Support for Enhanced PAN (execute-only permissions)
  arm64: Support execute-only permissions with Enhanced PAN

* for-next/kasan-vmalloc:
  : Support CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC on arm64
  arm64: Kconfig: select KASAN_VMALLOC if KANSAN_GENERIC is enabled
  arm64: kaslr: support randomized module area with KASAN_VMALLOC
  arm64: Kconfig: support CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC
  arm64: kasan: abstract _text and _end to KERNEL_START/END
  arm64: kasan: don't populate vmalloc area for CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC

* for-next/fgt-boot-init:
  : Booting clarifications and fine grained traps setup
  arm64: Require that system registers at all visible ELs be initialized
  arm64: Disable fine grained traps on boot
  arm64: Document requirements for fine grained traps at boot

* for-next/vhe-only:
  : Dealing with VHE-only CPUs (a.k.a. M1)
  arm64: Get rid of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE
  arm64: Cope with CPUs stuck in VHE mode
  arm64: cpufeature: Allow early filtering of feature override

* arm64/for-next/perf:
  arm64: perf: Remove redundant initialization in perf_event.c
  perf/arm_pmu_platform: Clean up with dev_printk
  perf/arm_pmu_platform: Fix error handling
  perf/arm_pmu_platform: Use dev_err_probe() for IRQ errors
  docs: perf: Address some html build warnings
  docs: perf: Add new description on HiSilicon uncore PMU v2
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon PA PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Update DDRC PMU for programmable counter
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add new functions for HHA PMU
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add new functions for L3C PMU
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add PMU version for uncore PMU drivers.
  drivers/perf: hisi: Refactor code for more uncore PMUs
  drivers/perf: hisi: Remove unnecessary check of counter index
  drivers/perf: Simplify the SMMUv3 PMU event attributes
  drivers/perf: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit
  drivers/perf: convert sysfs scnprintf family to sysfs_emit_at() and sysfs_emit()
  drivers/perf: convert sysfs snprintf family to sysfs_emit

* for-next/neon-softirqs-disabled:
  : Run kernel mode SIMD with softirqs disabled
  arm64: fpsimd: run kernel mode NEON with softirqs disabled
  arm64: assembler: introduce wxN aliases for wN registers
  arm64: assembler: remove conditional NEON yield macros
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* for-next/misc:
  : Miscellaneous patches
  arm64/sve: Add compile time checks for SVE hooks in generic functions
  arm64/kernel/probes: Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG.
  arm64/sve: Remove redundant system_supports_sve() tests
  arm64: mte: Remove unused mte_assign_mem_tag_range()
  arm64: Add __init section marker to some functions
  arm64/sve: Rework SVE access trap to convert state in registers
  docs: arm64: Fix a grammar error
  arm64: smp: Add missing prototype for some smp.c functions
  arm64: setup: name `tcr` register
  arm64: setup: name `mair` register
  arm64: stacktrace: Move start_backtrace() out of the header
  arm64: barrier: Remove spec_bar() macro
  arm64: entry: remove test_irqs_unmasked macro
  ARM64: enable GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT
  arm64: defconfig: Use DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED

* for-next/kselftest:
  : Various kselftests for arm64
  kselftest: arm64: Add BTI tests
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Report filename on failing temp file creation
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Fix clang warning
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Makefile: Fix clang compilation
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Output warning about failing compiler
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Use cross-compiler if specified
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Fix MTE feature detection
  kselftest/arm64: mte: common: Fix write() warnings
  kselftest/arm64: mte: user_mem: Fix write() warning
  kselftest/arm64: mte: ksm_options: Fix fscanf warning
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Fix pthread linking
  kselftest/arm64: mte: Fix compilation with native compiler

* for-next/xntable:
  : Add hierarchical XN permissions for all page tables
  arm64: mm: use XN table mapping attributes for user/kernel mappings
  arm64: mm: use XN table mapping attributes for the linear region
  arm64: mm: add missing P4D definitions and use them consistently

* for-next/vdso:
  : Minor improvements to the compat vdso and sigpage
  arm64: compat: Poison the compat sigpage
  arm64: vdso: Avoid ISB after reading from cntvct_el0
  arm64: compat: Allow signal page to be remapped
  arm64: vdso: Remove redundant calls to flush_dcache_page()
  arm64: vdso: Use GFP_KERNEL for allocating compat vdso and signal pages

* for-next/fiq:
  : Support arm64 FIQ controller registration
  arm64: irq: allow FIQs to be handled
  arm64: Always keep DAIF.[IF] in sync
  arm64: entry: factor irq triage logic into macros
  arm64: irq: rework root IRQ handler registration
  arm64: don't use GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER
  genirq: Allow architectures to override set_handle_irq() fallback

* for-next/epan:
  : Support for Enhanced PAN (execute-only permissions)
  arm64: Support execute-only permissions with Enhanced PAN

* for-next/kasan-vmalloc:
  : Support CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC on arm64
  arm64: Kconfig: select KASAN_VMALLOC if KANSAN_GENERIC is enabled
  arm64: kaslr: support randomized module area with KASAN_VMALLOC
  arm64: Kconfig: support CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC
  arm64: kasan: abstract _text and _end to KERNEL_START/END
  arm64: kasan: don't populate vmalloc area for CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC

* for-next/fgt-boot-init:
  : Booting clarifications and fine grained traps setup
  arm64: Require that system registers at all visible ELs be initialized
  arm64: Disable fine grained traps on boot
  arm64: Document requirements for fine grained traps at boot

* for-next/vhe-only:
  : Dealing with VHE-only CPUs (a.k.a. M1)
  arm64: Get rid of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE
  arm64: Cope with CPUs stuck in VHE mode
  arm64: cpufeature: Allow early filtering of feature override

* arm64/for-next/perf:
  arm64: perf: Remove redundant initialization in perf_event.c
  perf/arm_pmu_platform: Clean up with dev_printk
  perf/arm_pmu_platform: Fix error handling
  perf/arm_pmu_platform: Use dev_err_probe() for IRQ errors
  docs: perf: Address some html build warnings
  docs: perf: Add new description on HiSilicon uncore PMU v2
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon PA PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC PMU driver
  drivers/perf: hisi: Update DDRC PMU for programmable counter
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add new functions for HHA PMU
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add new functions for L3C PMU
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add PMU version for uncore PMU drivers.
  drivers/perf: hisi: Refactor code for more uncore PMUs
  drivers/perf: hisi: Remove unnecessary check of counter index
  drivers/perf: Simplify the SMMUv3 PMU event attributes
  drivers/perf: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit
  drivers/perf: convert sysfs scnprintf family to sysfs_emit_at() and sysfs_emit()
  drivers/perf: convert sysfs snprintf family to sysfs_emit

* for-next/neon-softirqs-disabled:
  : Run kernel mode SIMD with softirqs disabled
  arm64: fpsimd: run kernel mode NEON with softirqs disabled
  arm64: assembler: introduce wxN aliases for wN registers
  arm64: assembler: remove conditional NEON yield macros
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Add compile time checks for SVE hooks in generic functions</title>
<updated>2021-04-15T12:56:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-15T12:17:42+00:00</published>
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The FPSIMD code was relying on IS_ENABLED() checks in system_suppors_sve()
to cause the compiler to delete references to SVE functions in some places,
add explicit IS_ENABLED() checks back.

Fixes: ef9c5d09797d ("arm64/sve: Remove redundant system_supports_sve() tests")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415121742.36628-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The FPSIMD code was relying on IS_ENABLED() checks in system_suppors_sve()
to cause the compiler to delete references to SVE functions in some places,
add explicit IS_ENABLED() checks back.

Fixes: ef9c5d09797d ("arm64/sve: Remove redundant system_supports_sve() tests")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210415121742.36628-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Remove redundant system_supports_sve() tests</title>
<updated>2021-04-13T11:51:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-12T17:23:20+00:00</published>
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Currently there are a number of places in the SVE code where we check both
system_supports_sve() and TIF_SVE. This is a bit redundant given that we
should never get into a situation where we have set TIF_SVE without having
SVE support and it is not clear that silently ignoring a mistakenly set
TIF_SVE flag is the most sensible error handling approach. For now let's
just drop the system_supports_sve() checks since this will at least reduce
overhead a little.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210412172320.3315-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Currently there are a number of places in the SVE code where we check both
system_supports_sve() and TIF_SVE. This is a bit redundant given that we
should never get into a situation where we have set TIF_SVE without having
SVE support and it is not clear that silently ignoring a mistakenly set
TIF_SVE flag is the most sensible error handling approach. For now let's
just drop the system_supports_sve() checks since this will at least reduce
overhead a little.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210412172320.3315-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64: fpsimd: run kernel mode NEON with softirqs disabled</title>
<updated>2021-04-12T10:55:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ardb@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2021-03-02T09:01:12+00:00</published>
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Kernel mode NEON can be used in task or softirq context, but only in
a non-nesting manner, i.e., softirq context is only permitted if the
interrupt was not taken at a point where the kernel was using the NEON
in task context.

This means all users of kernel mode NEON have to be aware of this
limitation, and either need to provide scalar fallbacks that may be much
slower (up to 20x for AES instructions) and potentially less safe, or
use an asynchronous interface that defers processing to a later time
when the NEON is guaranteed to be available.

Given that grabbing and releasing the NEON is cheap, we can relax this
restriction, by increasing the granularity of kernel mode NEON code, and
always disabling softirq processing while the NEON is being used in task
context.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302090118.30666-4-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Kernel mode NEON can be used in task or softirq context, but only in
a non-nesting manner, i.e., softirq context is only permitted if the
interrupt was not taken at a point where the kernel was using the NEON
in task context.

This means all users of kernel mode NEON have to be aware of this
limitation, and either need to provide scalar fallbacks that may be much
slower (up to 20x for AES instructions) and potentially less safe, or
use an asynchronous interface that defers processing to a later time
when the NEON is guaranteed to be available.

Given that grabbing and releasing the NEON is cheap, we can relax this
restriction, by increasing the granularity of kernel mode NEON code, and
always disabling softirq processing while the NEON is being used in task
context.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302090118.30666-4-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Rework SVE access trap to convert state in registers</title>
<updated>2021-04-08T16:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-12T19:03:13+00:00</published>
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When we enable SVE usage in userspace after taking a SVE access trap we
need to ensure that the portions of the register state that are not
shared with the FPSIMD registers are zeroed. Currently we do this by
forcing the FPSIMD registers to be saved to the task struct and converting
them there. This is wasteful in the common case where the task state is
loaded into the registers and we will immediately return to userspace
since we can initialise the SVE state directly in registers instead of
accessing multiple copies of the register state in memory.

Instead in that common case do the conversion in the registers and
update the task metadata so that we can return to userspace without
spilling the register state to memory unless there is some other reason
to do so.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312190313.24598-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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When we enable SVE usage in userspace after taking a SVE access trap we
need to ensure that the portions of the register state that are not
shared with the FPSIMD registers are zeroed. Currently we do this by
forcing the FPSIMD registers to be saved to the task struct and converting
them there. This is wasteful in the common case where the task state is
loaded into the registers and we will immediately return to userspace
since we can initialise the SVE state directly in registers instead of
accessing multiple copies of the register state in memory.

Instead in that common case do the conversion in the registers and
update the task metadata so that we can return to userspace without
spilling the register state to memory unless there is some other reason
to do so.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312190313.24598-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: reject prctl(PR_PAC_RESET_KEYS) on compat tasks</title>
<updated>2020-10-15T09:50:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
<email>pcc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-14T05:24:30+00:00</published>
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It doesn't make sense to issue prctl(PR_PAC_RESET_KEYS) on a
compat task because the 32-bit instruction set does not offer PAuth
instructions. For consistency with other 64-bit only prctls such as
{SET,GET}_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, reject the prctl on compat tasks.

Although this is a userspace-visible change, maybe it isn't too late
to make this change given that the hardware isn't available yet and
it's very unlikely that anyone has 32-bit software that actually
depends on this succeeding.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ie885a1ff84ab498cc9f62d6451e9f2cfd4b1d06a
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201014052430.11630-1-pcc@google.com
[will: Do the same for the SVE prctl()s]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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It doesn't make sense to issue prctl(PR_PAC_RESET_KEYS) on a
compat task because the 32-bit instruction set does not offer PAuth
instructions. For consistency with other 64-bit only prctls such as
{SET,GET}_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, reject the prctl on compat tasks.

Although this is a userspace-visible change, maybe it isn't too late
to make this change given that the hardware isn't available yet and
it's very unlikely that anyone has 32-bit software that actually
depends on this succeeding.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ie885a1ff84ab498cc9f62d6451e9f2cfd4b1d06a
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201014052430.11630-1-pcc@google.com
[will: Do the same for the SVE prctl()s]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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