[PATCH 1/3] arm64: fpsimd: Drop unneeded 'busy' flag

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Tue Nov 21 08:58:17 PST 2023


On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 02:52:14PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> 
> Kernel mode NEON will preserve the user mode FPSIMD state by saving it
> into the task struct before clobbering the registers. In order to avoid
> the need for preserving kernel mode state too, we disallow nested use of
> kernel mode NEON, i..e, use in softirq context while the interrupted
> task context was using kernel mode NEON too.

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
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