[RFC PATCH v8 19/21] riscv: Allocate space for vector registers in start_thread()

Greentime Hu greentime.hu at sifive.com
Wed Sep 8 10:45:31 PDT 2021


It allocates memory space for vector registers in start_thread() instead of
allocating in vstate_restore() in this patch. We can allocate memory here
so that it will be more readable.

Co-developed-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen at sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen at sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu at sifive.com>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h |  7 +------
 arch/riscv/kernel/process.c        | 15 +++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h
index de0573dad78f..b48c9c974564 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -103,12 +103,6 @@ static inline void vstate_restore(struct task_struct *task,
 {
 	if ((regs->status & SR_VS) != SR_VS_OFF) {
 		struct __riscv_v_state *vstate = &(task->thread.vstate);
-
-		/* Allocate space for vector registers. */
-		if (!vstate->datap) {
-			vstate->datap = kzalloc(riscv_vsize, GFP_ATOMIC);
-			vstate->size = riscv_vsize;
-		}
 		__vstate_restore(vstate, vstate->datap);
 		__vstate_clean(regs);
 	}
@@ -127,6 +121,7 @@ static inline void __switch_to_vector(struct task_struct *prev,
 
 #else
 #define has_vector false
+#define riscv_vsize (0)
 #define vstate_save(task, regs) do { } while (0)
 #define vstate_restore(task, regs) do { } while (0)
 #define __switch_to_vector(__prev, __next) do { } while (0)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
index 0b86e9e531c9..05ff5f934e7e 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
@@ -97,7 +97,16 @@ void start_thread(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long pc,
 	}
 
 	if (has_vector) {
+		struct __riscv_v_state *vstate = &(current->thread.vstate);
+
+		/* Enable vector and allocate memory for vector registers. */
+		if (!vstate->datap) {
+			vstate->datap = kzalloc(riscv_vsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (WARN_ON(!vstate->datap))
+				return;
+		}
 		regs->status |= SR_VS_INITIAL;
+
 		/*
 		 * Restore the initial value to the vector register
 		 * before starting the user program.
@@ -121,9 +130,11 @@ void flush_thread(void)
 	memset(&current->thread.fstate, 0, sizeof(current->thread.fstate));
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_VECTOR
-	/* Reset vector state */
+	/* Reset vector state and keep datap pointer. */
 	vstate_off(current, task_pt_regs(current));
-	memset(&current->thread.vstate, 0, sizeof(current->thread.vstate));
+	memset(&current->thread.vstate, 0, RISCV_V_STATE_DATAP);
+	if (current->thread.vstate.datap)
+		memset(current->thread.vstate.datap, 0, riscv_vsize);
 #endif
 }
 
-- 
2.31.1




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