[PATCH v1 10/38] arm64/sve: Generalise vector length configuration prctl() for SME
Jonathan Cameron
Jonathan.Cameron at Huawei.com
Mon Oct 11 03:27:50 PDT 2021
On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:11:16 +0100
Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> In preparation for adding SME support update the bulk of the implementation
> for the vector length configuration prctl() calls to be independent of
> vector type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
And let the trivial continue (which is just a reflection of the fact I don't have
enough of a grasp on this to find anything substantial - or there is nothing there
to find :)
...
> /*
> - * Clamp to the maximum vector length that VL-agnostic SVE code can
> - * work with. A flag may be assigned in the future to allow setting
> - * of larger vector lengths without confusing older software.
> + * Clamp to the maximum vector length that VL-agnostic code
> + * can work with. A flag may be assigned in the future to
> + * allow setting of larger vector lengths without confusing
> + * older software.
Why the oddly short wrapping at sub 70 chars?
> */
> - if (vl > SVE_VL_ARCH_MAX)
> - vl = SVE_VL_ARCH_MAX;
> + if (vl > VL_ARCH_MAX)
> + vl = VL_ARCH_MAX;
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