[PATCH v2 22/31] arm64: Floating point and SIMD

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Aug 15 10:35:30 EDT 2012


On Tuesday 14 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> This patch adds support for FP/ASIMD register bank saving and restoring
> during context switch and FP exception handling to generate SIGFPE.
> There are 32 128-bit registers and the context switching is currently
> done non-lazily. Benchmarks on real hardware are required before
> implementing lazy FP state saving/restoring.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>



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