[PATCH v7 13/16] KVM: arm64: Remove eager host SVE state saving

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu May 10 09:53:27 PDT 2018


On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 05:13:02PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> Now that the host SVE context can be saved on demand from Hyp,
> there is no longer any need to save this state in advance before
> entering the guest.
> 
> This patch removes the relevant call to
> kvm_fpsimd_flush_cpu_state().
> 
> Since the problem that function was intended to solve now no longer
> exists, the function and its dependencies are also deleted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

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



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