[PATCH 03/27] arm64: efi: Add missing Kconfig dependency on KERNEL_MODE_NEON

Alex Bennée alex.bennee at linaro.org
Fri Aug 18 05:02:36 PDT 2017


Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com> writes:

> The EFI runtime services ABI permits calls to EFI to clobber
> certain FPSIMD/NEON registers, as per the AArch64 procedure call
> standard.
>
> Saving/restoring the clobbered registers around such calls needs
> KERNEL_MODE_NEON, but the dependency is missing from Kconfig.
>
> This patch adds the missing dependency.
>
> This will aid bisection of the patches implementing support for the
> ARM Scalable Vector Extension (SVE).
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index dfd9086..fdc302e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1050,6 +1050,7 @@ config EFI_STUB
>  config EFI
>  	bool "UEFI runtime support"
>  	depends on OF && !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> +	depends on KERNEL_MODE_NEON
>  	select LIBFDT
>  	select UCS2_STRING
>  	select EFI_PARAMS_FROM_FDT


--
Alex Bennée



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