[PATCH 16/27] arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use
Dave Martin
Dave.Martin at arm.com
Wed Aug 9 05:05:22 PDT 2017
Kernel-mode NEON will corrupt the SVE vector registers, due to the
way they alias the FPSIMD vector registers in the hardware.
This patch ensures that any live SVE register content for the task
is saved by kernel_neon_begin(). The data will be restored in the
usual way on return to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index 955c873..b7fb836 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -758,8 +758,10 @@ void kernel_neon_begin(void)
__this_cpu_write(kernel_neon_busy, true);
/* Save unsaved task fpsimd state, if any: */
- if (current->mm && !test_and_set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE))
- fpsimd_save_state(¤t->thread.fpsimd_state);
+ if (current->mm) {
+ task_fpsimd_save();
+ set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE);
+ }
/* Invalidate any task state remaining in the fpsimd regs: */
__this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state, NULL);
--
2.1.4
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