[PATCH v3 17/28] arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Oct 12 03:15:48 PDT 2017


On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 07:38:34PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> Kernel-mode NEON will corrupt the SVE vector registers, due to the
> way they alias the FPSIMD vector registers in the hardware.
> 
> This patch ensures that any live SVE register content for the task
> is saved by kernel_neon_begin().  The data will be restored in the
> usual way on return to userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>

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



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list