[PATCH v11 24/40] arm64/sme: Disable streaming mode and ZA when flushing CPU state

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Feb 7 07:20:53 PST 2022


Both streaming mode and ZA may increase power consumption when they are
enabled and streaming mode makes many FPSIMD and SVE instructions undefined
which will cause problems for any kernel mode floating point so disable
both when we flush the CPU state. This covers both kernel_neon_begin() and
idle and after flushing the state a reload is always required anyway.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index 8b111b7f2006..e00d3a9e919c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -1762,6 +1762,15 @@ static void fpsimd_flush_cpu_state(void)
 {
 	WARN_ON(!system_supports_fpsimd());
 	__this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state.st, NULL);
+
+	/*
+	 * Leaving streaming mode enabled will cause issues for any kernel
+	 * NEON and leaving streaming mode or ZA enabled may increase power
+	 * consumption.
+	 */
+	if (system_supports_sme())
+		sme_smstop();
+
 	set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE);
 }
 
-- 
2.30.2




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