[PATCH] arm64/sme: More sensibly define the size for the ZA register set

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Thu May 5 15:15:17 PDT 2022


Since the vector length configuration mechanism is identical between SVE
and SME we share large elements of the code including the definition for
the maximum vector length. Unfortunately when we were defining the ABI
for SVE we included not only the actual maximum vector length of 2048
bits but also the value possible if all the bits reserved in the
architecture for expansion of the LEN field were used, 16384 bits.

This starts creating problems if we try to allocate anything for the ZA
matrix based on the maximum possible vector length, as we do for the
regset used with ptrace during the process of generating a core dump.
While the maximum potential size for ZA with the current architecture is
a reasonably managable 64K with the higher reserved limit ZA would be
64M which leads to entirely reasonable complaints from the memory
management code when we try to allocate a buffer of that size. Avoid
these issues by defining the actual maximum vector length for the
architecture and using it for the SME regsets.

Also use the full ZA_PT_SIZE() with the header rather than just the
actual register payload when specifying the size, fixing support for the
largest vector lengths now that we have this new, lower define. With the
SVE maximum this did not cause problems due to the extra headroom we
had.

While we're at it add a comment clarifying why even though ZA is a
single register we tell the regset code that it is a multi-register
regset.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai at quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c      | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
index 6fd879fe02da..aa11dbec0d70 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@
 #define VFP_STATE_SIZE		((32 * 8) + 4)
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * When we defined the maximum SVE vector length we defined the ABI so
+ * that the maximum vector length included all the reserved for future
+ * expansion bits in ZCR rather than those just currently defined by
+ * the architecture. While SME follows a similar pattern the fact that
+ * it includes a square matrix means that any allocations that attempt
+ * to cover the maximum potential vector length (such as happen with
+ * the regset used for ptrace) end up being extremely large. Define
+ * the much lower actual limit for use in such situations.
+ */
+#define SME_VQ_MAX	16
+
 struct task_struct;
 
 extern void fpsimd_save_state(struct user_fpsimd_state *state);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 78085a32df83..140f5a8cc7c4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ static const struct user_regset aarch64_regsets[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SME
 	[REGSET_SSVE] = { /* Streaming mode SVE */
 		.core_note_type = NT_ARM_SSVE,
-		.n = DIV_ROUND_UP(SVE_PT_SIZE(SVE_VQ_MAX, SVE_PT_REGS_SVE),
+		.n = DIV_ROUND_UP(SVE_PT_SIZE(SME_VQ_MAX, SVE_PT_REGS_SVE),
 				  SVE_VQ_BYTES),
 		.size = SVE_VQ_BYTES,
 		.align = SVE_VQ_BYTES,
@@ -1447,7 +1447,15 @@ static const struct user_regset aarch64_regsets[] = {
 	},
 	[REGSET_ZA] = { /* SME ZA */
 		.core_note_type = NT_ARM_ZA,
-		.n = DIV_ROUND_UP(ZA_PT_ZA_SIZE(SVE_VQ_MAX), SVE_VQ_BYTES),
+		/*
+		 * ZA is a single register but it's variably sized and
+		 * the ptrace core requires that the size of any data
+		 * be an exact multiple of the configured register
+		 * size so report as though we had SVE_VQ_BYTES
+		 * registers. These values aren't exposed to
+		 * userspace.
+		 */
+		.n = DIV_ROUND_UP(ZA_PT_SIZE(SME_VQ_MAX), SVE_VQ_BYTES),
 		.size = SVE_VQ_BYTES,
 		.align = SVE_VQ_BYTES,
 		.regset_get = za_get,
-- 
2.30.2




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