[PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: SVE fixes for v4.15-rc2

Dave Martin Dave.Martin at arm.com
Wed Dec 6 08:45:44 PST 2017


This series contains a few fixes for known issues in the arm64 FPSIMD
and SVE implementation.

This supersedes the previous posting. [1]

Note that although patch 2 is not a fix, it provides refactoring that is
used by the fix in patch 3.

[1] [PATCH 0/3] arm64: SVE fixes for v4.15-rc1
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-December/545126.html

Dave Martin (3):
  arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking from dead tasks
  arm64: fpsimd: Abstract out binding of task's fpsimd context to the
    cpu.
  arm64/sve: Avoid dereference of dead task_struct in KVM guest entry

 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c  | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 arch/arm64/kernel/process.c |  9 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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