Patch "arm64/fpsimd: Stop using TIF_SVE to manage register saving in KVM" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Apr 21 23:43:53 PDT 2025


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64/fpsimd: Stop using TIF_SVE to manage register saving in KVM

to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm64-fpsimd-stop-using-tif_sve-to-manage-register-saving-in-kvm.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From stable+bounces-128303-greg=kroah.com at vger.kernel.org Fri Apr  4 15:28:32 2025
From: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:23:37 +0100
Subject: arm64/fpsimd: Stop using TIF_SVE to manage register saving in KVM
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>,  Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>,  James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>,  Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>,  Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>,  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org,  kvmarm at lists.linux.dev, kvmarm at lists.cs.columbia.edu,  Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>, stable at vger.kernel.org,  Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Message-ID: <20250404-stable-sve-6-1-v1-4-cd5c9eb52d49 at kernel.org>

From: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 62021cc36add7b2c015b837f7893f2fb4b8c2586 ]

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>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115094640.112848-5-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
[ Mark: trivial backport ]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c |   22 ++++------------------
 arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c    |    3 ---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -439,8 +439,8 @@ static void task_fpsimd_load(void)
  * last, if KVM is involved this may be the guest VM context rather
  * than the host thread for the VM pointed to by current. This means
  * that we must always reference the state storage via last rather
- * than via current, other than the TIF_ flags which KVM will
- * carefully maintain for us.
+ * than via current, if we are saving KVM state then it will have
+ * ensured that the type of registers to save is set in last->to_save.
  */
 static void fpsimd_save(void)
 {
@@ -457,27 +457,13 @@ static void fpsimd_save(void)
 	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE))
 		return;
 
-	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SVE)) {
+	if ((last->to_save == FP_STATE_CURRENT && test_thread_flag(TIF_SVE)) ||
+	    last->to_save == FP_STATE_SVE) {
 		save_sve_regs = true;
 		save_ffr = true;
 		vl = last->sve_vl;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Validate that an explicitly specified state to save is
-	 * consistent with the task state.
-	 */
-	switch (last->to_save) {
-	case FP_STATE_CURRENT:
-		break;
-	case FP_STATE_FPSIMD:
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(save_sve_regs);
-		break;
-	case FP_STATE_SVE:
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(!save_sve_regs);
-		break;
-	}
-
 	if (system_supports_sme()) {
 		u64 *svcr = last->svcr;
 
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_ctxsync_fp(struct kvm
 					 &vcpu->arch.fp_type, fp_type);
 
 		clear_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE);
-		update_thread_flag(TIF_SVE, vcpu_has_sve(vcpu));
 	}
 }
 
@@ -208,7 +207,5 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put_fp(struct kvm_vcp
 			sysreg_clear_set(CPACR_EL1, CPACR_EL1_ZEN_EL0EN, 0);
 	}
 
-	update_thread_flag(TIF_SVE, 0);
-
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from broonie at kernel.org are

queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-remove-host-fpsimd-saving-for-non-protected-kvm.patch
queue-6.1/spi-cadence-qspi-fix-probe-on-am62a-lp-sk.patch
queue-6.1/asoc-qdsp6-q6asm-dai-fix-q6asm_dai_compr_set_params-error-path.patch
queue-6.1/asoc-qdsp6-q6apm-dai-fix-capture-pipeline-overruns.patch
queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-mark-some-header-functions-as-inline.patch
queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-eagerly-switch-zcr_el-1-2.patch
queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-unconditionally-save-flush-host-fpsimd-sve-sme-state.patch
queue-6.1/asoc-amd-add-dmi-quirk-for-acp6x-mic-support.patch
queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-refactor-exit-handlers.patch
queue-6.1/asoc-qdsp6-q6apm-dai-set-10-ms-period-and-buffer-alignment.patch
queue-6.1/asoc-codecs-lpass-wsa-macro-fix-vi-feedback-rate.patch
queue-6.1/arm64-fpsimd-track-the-saved-fpsimd-state-type-separately-to-tif_sve.patch
queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-remove-vhe-host-restore-of-cpacr_el1.zen.patch
queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-remove-vhe-host-restore-of-cpacr_el1.smen.patch
queue-6.1/asoc-fsl_audmix-register-card-device-depends-on-dais.patch
queue-6.1/arm64-fpsimd-have-kvm-explicitly-say-which-fp-registers-to-save.patch
queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-discard-any-sve-state-when-entering-kvm-guests.patch
queue-6.1/arm64-fpsimd-stop-using-tif_sve-to-manage-register-saving-in-kvm.patch
queue-6.1/asoc-codecs-lpass-wsa-macro-fix-logic-of-enabling-vi-channels.patch
queue-6.1/kvm-arm64-calculate-cptr_el2-traps-on-activating-traps.patch



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