<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c, branch v5.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Remove asmlinkage from updated functions</title>
<updated>2019-10-28T11:22:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morse</name>
<email>james.morse@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-25T16:42:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=afa7c0e5b965cdb945ad8a2e2973c6d7e19969f9'/>
<id>afa7c0e5b965cdb945ad8a2e2973c6d7e19969f9</id>
<content type='text'>
Now that the callers of these functions have moved into C, they no longer
need the asmlinkage annotation. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Now that the callers of these functions have moved into C, they no longer
need the asmlinkage annotation. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Fix a couple of magic numbers for the Z-reg count</title>
<updated>2019-07-22T10:49:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-12T16:00:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ed2f3e9ff637c7c9f65b98468a084393683ff93b'/>
<id>ed2f3e9ff637c7c9f65b98468a084393683ff93b</id>
<content type='text'>
There are some hand-written instances of "32" to express the number
of SVE Z-registers.

Since this code was written a #define was added for this, so
convert trivial instances of this magic number as appropriate.

No functional change.

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
There are some hand-written instances of "32" to express the number
of SVE Z-registers.

Since this code was written a #define was added for this, so
convert trivial instances of this magic number as appropriate.

No functional change.

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/sve: Factor out FPSIMD to SVE state conversion</title>
<updated>2019-07-22T10:48:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
<email>Dave.Martin@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-12T16:00:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d16af870a70e0e399126c6419f92e7badf5e465b'/>
<id>d16af870a70e0e399126c6419f92e7badf5e465b</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently we convert from FPSIMD to SVE register state in memory in
two places.

To ease future maintenance, let's consolidate this in one place.

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Currently we convert from FPSIMD to SVE register state in memory in
two places.

To ease future maintenance, let's consolidate this in one place.

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T16:54:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T16:54:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dfd437a257924484b144ee750e60affc95562c6d'/>
<id>dfd437a257924484b144ee750e60affc95562c6d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}

 - Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
   manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly

 - Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
   touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)

 - Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new
   XAFLAG and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
   manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)

 - Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
   BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)

 - Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
   panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
   secondary CPUs during panic

 - perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
   platforms

 - perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP

 - cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
   cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers

 - Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent

 - arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups

 - Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)

 - Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the
   'arm_boot_flags' introduced in 5.1)

 - CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig

 - Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
   RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
   over into the vmalloc area

 - Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits)
  perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading
  arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
  ACPI/PPTT: Add function to return ACPI 6.3 Identical tokens
  ACPI/PPTT: Modify node flag detection to find last IDENTICAL
  x86/entry: Simplify _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU handling
  arm64: rename dump_instr as dump_kernel_instr
  arm64/mm: Drop [PTE|PMD]_TYPE_FAULT
  arm64: Implement panic_smp_self_stop()
  arm64: Improve parking of stopped CPUs
  arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace
  arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
  arm64: ARM64_MODULES_PLTS must depend on MODULES
  arm64: bpf: do not allocate executable memory
  arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages
  arm64/mm: wire up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  arm64: module: create module allocations without exec permissions
  arm64: Allow user selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
  acpi/arm64: ignore 5.1 FADTs that are reported as 5.0
  arm64: Allow selecting Pseudo-NMI again
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - arm64 support for syscall emulation via PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP}

 - Wire up VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS for arm64, allowing the core code to
   manage the permissions of executable vmalloc regions more strictly

 - Slight performance improvement by keeping softirqs enabled while
   touching the FPSIMD/SVE state (kernel_neon_begin/end)

 - Expose a couple of ARMv8.5 features to user (HWCAP): CondM (new
   XAFLAG and AXFLAG instructions for floating point comparison flags
   manipulation) and FRINT (rounding floating point numbers to integers)

 - Re-instate ARM64_PSEUDO_NMI support which was previously marked as
   BROKEN due to some bugs (now fixed)

 - Improve parking of stopped CPUs and implement an arm64-specific
   panic_smp_self_stop() to avoid warning on not being able to stop
   secondary CPUs during panic

 - perf: enable the ARM Statistical Profiling Extensions (SPE) on ACPI
   platforms

 - perf: DDR performance monitor support for iMX8QXP

 - cache_line_size() can now be set from DT or ACPI/PPTT if provided to
   cope with a system cache info not exposed via the CPUID registers

 - Avoid warning on hardware cache line size greater than
   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN if the system is fully coherent

 - arm64 do_page_fault() and hugetlb cleanups

 - Refactor set_pte_at() to avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)

 - Ignore ACPI 5.1 FADTs reported as 5.0 (infer from the
   'arm_boot_flags' introduced in 5.1)

 - CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE now enabled in defconfig

 - Allow the selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS, currently only done via
   RANDOMIZE_BASE (and an erratum workaround), allowing modules to spill
   over into the vmalloc area

 - Make ZONE_DMA32 configurable

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (54 commits)
  perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading
  arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
  ACPI/PPTT: Add function to return ACPI 6.3 Identical tokens
  ACPI/PPTT: Modify node flag detection to find last IDENTICAL
  x86/entry: Simplify _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU handling
  arm64: rename dump_instr as dump_kernel_instr
  arm64/mm: Drop [PTE|PMD]_TYPE_FAULT
  arm64: Implement panic_smp_self_stop()
  arm64: Improve parking of stopped CPUs
  arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace
  arm64: Expose ARMv8.5 CondM capability to userspace
  arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE
  arm64: ARM64_MODULES_PLTS must depend on MODULES
  arm64: bpf: do not allocate executable memory
  arm64/kprobes: set VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS on kprobe instruction pages
  arm64/mm: wire up CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP
  arm64: module: create module allocations without exec permissions
  arm64: Allow user selection of ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
  acpi/arm64: ignore 5.1 FADTs that are reported as 5.0
  arm64: Allow selecting Pseudo-NMI again
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=caab277b1de0a22b675c4c95fc7b285ec2eb5bf5'/>
<id>caab277b1de0a22b675c4c95fc7b285ec2eb5bf5</id>
<content type='text'>
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;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=41040cf7c5f0f26c368bc5d3016fed3a9ca6dba4'/>
<id>41040cf7c5f0f26c368bc5d3016fed3a9ca6dba4</id>
<content type='text'>
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;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/fpsimd: Don't disable softirq when touching FPSIMD/SVE state</title>
<updated>2019-06-04T12:17:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Grall</name>
<email>julien.grall@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-21T17:21:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6dcdefcde413c1068b394eeabdfdf6a85213ebe2'/>
<id>6dcdefcde413c1068b394eeabdfdf6a85213ebe2</id>
<content type='text'>
When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON, some part of
the kernel may be able to use FPSIMD/SVE. This is for instance the case
for crypto code.

Any use of FPSIMD/SVE in the kernel are clearly marked by using the
function kernel_neon_{begin, end}. Furthermore, this can only be used
when may_use_simd() returns true.

The current implementation of may_use_simd() allows softirq to use
FPSIMD/SVE unless it is currently in use (i.e kernel_neon_busy is true).
When in use, softirqs usually fall back to a software method.

At the moment, as a softirq may use FPSIMD/SVE, softirqs are disabled
when touching the FPSIMD/SVE context. This has the drawback to disable
all softirqs even if they are not using FPSIMD/SVE.

Since a softirq is supposed to check may_use_simd() anyway before
attempting to use FPSIMD/SVE, there is limited reason to keep softirq
disabled when touching the FPSIMD/SVE context. Instead, we can simply
disable preemption and mark the FPSIMD/SVE context as in use by setting
CPU's fpsimd_context_busy flag.

Two new helpers {get, put}_cpu_fpsimd_context are introduced to mark
the area using FPSIMD/SVE context and they are used to replace
local_bh_{disable, enable}. The functions kernel_neon_{begin, end} are
also re-implemented to use the new helpers.

Additionally, double-underscored versions of the helpers are provided to
called when preemption is already disabled. These are only relevant on
paths where irqs are disabled anyway, so they are not needed for
correctness in the current code. Let's use them anyway though: this
marks critical sections clearly and will help to avoid mistakes during
future maintenance.

The change has been benchmarked on Linux 5.1-rc4 with defconfig.

On Juno2:
    * hackbench 100 process 1000 (10 times)
    * .7% quicker

On ThunderX 2:
    * hackbench 1000 process 1000 (20 times)
    * 3.4% quicker

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_KERNEL_MODE_NEON, some part of
the kernel may be able to use FPSIMD/SVE. This is for instance the case
for crypto code.

Any use of FPSIMD/SVE in the kernel are clearly marked by using the
function kernel_neon_{begin, end}. Furthermore, this can only be used
when may_use_simd() returns true.

The current implementation of may_use_simd() allows softirq to use
FPSIMD/SVE unless it is currently in use (i.e kernel_neon_busy is true).
When in use, softirqs usually fall back to a software method.

At the moment, as a softirq may use FPSIMD/SVE, softirqs are disabled
when touching the FPSIMD/SVE context. This has the drawback to disable
all softirqs even if they are not using FPSIMD/SVE.

Since a softirq is supposed to check may_use_simd() anyway before
attempting to use FPSIMD/SVE, there is limited reason to keep softirq
disabled when touching the FPSIMD/SVE context. Instead, we can simply
disable preemption and mark the FPSIMD/SVE context as in use by setting
CPU's fpsimd_context_busy flag.

Two new helpers {get, put}_cpu_fpsimd_context are introduced to mark
the area using FPSIMD/SVE context and they are used to replace
local_bh_{disable, enable}. The functions kernel_neon_{begin, end} are
also re-implemented to use the new helpers.

Additionally, double-underscored versions of the helpers are provided to
called when preemption is already disabled. These are only relevant on
paths where irqs are disabled anyway, so they are not needed for
correctness in the current code. Let's use them anyway though: this
marks critical sections clearly and will help to avoid mistakes during
future maintenance.

The change has been benchmarked on Linux 5.1-rc4 with defconfig.

On Juno2:
    * hackbench 100 process 1000 (10 times)
    * .7% quicker

On ThunderX 2:
    * hackbench 1000 process 1000 (20 times)
    * 3.4% quicker

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64/fpsimd: Introduce fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state() and use it</title>
<updated>2019-06-04T12:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Grall</name>
<email>julien.grall@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-21T17:21:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=54b8c7cbc57c1ce21f4e35101f2609092c4af49a'/>
<id>54b8c7cbc57c1ce21f4e35101f2609092c4af49a</id>
<content type='text'>
The only external user of fpsimd_save() and fpsimd_flush_cpu_state() is
the KVM FPSIMD code.

A following patch will introduce a mechanism to acquire owernship of the
FPSIMD/SVE context for performing context management operations. Rather
than having to export the new helpers to get/put the context, we can just
introduce a new function to combine fpsimd_save() and
fpsimd_flush_cpu_state().

This has also the advantage to remove any external call of fpsimd_save()
and fpsimd_flush_cpu_state(), so they can be turned static.

Lastly, the new function can also be used in the PM notifier.

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The only external user of fpsimd_save() and fpsimd_flush_cpu_state() is
the KVM FPSIMD code.

A following patch will introduce a mechanism to acquire owernship of the
FPSIMD/SVE context for performing context management operations. Rather
than having to export the new helpers to get/put the context, we can just
introduce a new function to combine fpsimd_save() and
fpsimd_flush_cpu_state().

This has also the advantage to remove any external call of fpsimd_save()
and fpsimd_flush_cpu_state(), so they can be turned static.

Lastly, the new function can also be used in the PM notifier.

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;Dave.Martin@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0ef0fd351550130129bbdb77362488befd7b69d2'/>
<id>0ef0fd351550130129bbdb77362488befd7b69d2</id>
<content type='text'>
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
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=624835abf9e26bf27e627fd54c2a2b36972b14f0'/>
<id>624835abf9e26bf27e627fd54c2a2b36972b14f0</id>
<content type='text'>
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;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
