[PATCH v6 10/15] arm64/sve: Move sve_pffr() to fpsimd.h and make inline
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed May 9 01:46:05 PDT 2018
On 08/05/18 17:44, Dave Martin wrote:
> In order to make sve_save_state()/sve_load_state() more easily
> reusable and to get rid of a potential branch on context switch
> critical paths, this patch makes sve_pffr() inline and moves it to
> fpsimd.h.
>
> <asm/processor.h> must be included in fpsimd.h in order to make
> this work, and this creates an #include cycle that is tricky to
> avoid without modifying core code, due to the way the PR_SVE_*()
> prctl helpers are included in the core prctl implementation.
>
> Instead of breaking the cycle, this patch defers inclusion of
> <asm/fpsimd.h> in <asm/processor.h> until the point where it is
> actually needed: i.e., immediately before the prctl definitions.
>
> No functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
M.
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