[RFT PATCH v2 2/4] arm64: restore FPSIMD to default state for kernel and signal contexts

Jiang Liu liuj97 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 10:20:18 EDT 2013


From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com>

Restore FPSIMD control and status registers to default values
when creating new FPSIMD contexts for kernel context and reset
FPSIMD status register when creating FPSIMD context for signal
handling, otherwise the stale value in FPSIMD control and status
registers may affect the new kernal or signal handling contexts.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97 at gmail.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c      | 11 +++++++++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c      |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c    |  1 +
 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
index c43b4ac..b2dc30f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
@@ -50,8 +50,24 @@ struct fpsimd_state {
 #define VFP_STATE_SIZE		((32 * 8) + 4)
 #endif
 
+#define	AARCH64_FPCR_DEFAULT_VAL	0
+
 struct task_struct;
 
+static inline void fpsimd_init_hw_state(void)
+{
+	int val = AARCH64_FPCR_DEFAULT_VAL;
+
+	asm ("msr fpcr, %x0\n"
+	     "msr fpsr, xzr\n"
+             : : "r"(val));
+}
+
+static inline void fpsimd_clear_fpsr(void)
+{
+	asm ("msr fpsr, xzr\n");
+}
+
 extern void fpsimd_save_state(struct fpsimd_state *state);
 extern void fpsimd_load_state(struct fpsimd_state *state);
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index bb785d2..12a25e5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -80,9 +80,14 @@ void fpsimd_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
 
 void fpsimd_flush_thread(void)
 {
+	struct fpsimd_state *state = &current->thread.fpsimd_state;
+
 	preempt_disable();
-	memset(&current->thread.fpsimd_state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
-	fpsimd_load_state(&current->thread.fpsimd_state);
+	memset(state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
+#if (AARCH64_FPCR_DEFAULT_VAL != 0)
+	state->fpcr = AARCH64_FPCR_DEFAULT_VAL;
+#endif
+	fpsimd_load_state(state);
 	preempt_enable();
 }
 
@@ -99,6 +104,8 @@ void kernel_neon_begin(void)
 
 	if (current->mm)
 		fpsimd_save_state(&current->thread.fpsimd_state);
+
+	fpsimd_init_hw_state();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_neon_begin);
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
index 890a591..4ee231e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static int preserve_fpsimd_context(struct fpsimd_context __user *ctx)
 
 	/* dump the hardware registers to the fpsimd_state structure */
 	fpsimd_save_state(fpsimd);
+	fpsimd_clear_fpsr();
 
 	/* copy the FP and status/control registers */
 	err = __copy_to_user(ctx->vregs, fpsimd->vregs, sizeof(fpsimd->vregs));
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
index e393174..cf85c36 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ static int compat_preserve_vfp_context(struct compat_vfp_sigframe __user *frame)
 	 * in AArch32.
 	 */
 	fpsimd_save_state(fpsimd);
+	fpsimd_clear_fpsr();
 
 	/* Place structure header on the stack */
 	__put_user_error(magic, &frame->magic, err);
-- 
1.8.1.2




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