[RFC PATCH 4/7] arm64/fpsimd: Don't warn when EFI execution context is preemptible

Ard Biesheuvel ardb+git at google.com
Wed May 14 10:43:44 PDT 2025


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

Kernel mode FP/SIMD no longer requires preemption to be disabled, so
only warn on uses of FP/SIMD from preemptible context if the fallback
path is taken for cases where kernel mode NEON would not be allowed
otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index ae2ea0196030..47a8706e26b7 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -1975,11 +1975,11 @@ void __efi_fpsimd_begin(void)
 	if (!system_supports_fpsimd())
 		return;
 
-	WARN_ON(preemptible());
-
 	if (may_use_simd()) {
 		kernel_neon_begin();
 	} else {
+		WARN_ON(preemptible());
+
 		/*
 		 * If !efi_sve_state, SVE can't be in use yet and doesn't need
 		 * preserving:
-- 
2.49.0.1101.gccaa498523-goog




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