[PATCH v4 4/8] arm64/fpsimd: Stop using TIF_SVE to manage register saving in KVM

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Sun Nov 13 14:30:58 PST 2022


On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 12:03:17AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Now that we are explicitly telling the host FP code which register state
> it needs to save we can remove the manipulation of TIF_SVE from the KVM
> code, simplifying it and allowing us to optimise our handling of normal
> tasks. Remove the manipulation of TIF_SVE from KVM and instead rely on
> to_save to ensure we save the correct data for it.
> 
> There should be no functional or performance impact from this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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