[PATCH v2 05/11] arm64: sve: Provide a conditional update accessor for ZCR_ELx

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Thu Mar 18 13:32:19 GMT 2021


On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:25:26PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> A common pattern is to conditionally update ZCR_ELx in order
> to avoid the "self-synchronizing" effect that writing to this
> register has.
> 
> Let's provide an accessor that does exactly this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> index bec5f14b622a..05c9c55768b8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> @@ -130,6 +130,15 @@ static inline void sve_user_enable(void)
>  	sysreg_clear_set(cpacr_el1, 0, CPACR_EL1_ZEN_EL0EN);
>  }
>  
> +#define sve_cond_update_zcr_vq(val, reg)		\
> +	do {						\
> +		u64 __zcr = read_sysreg_s((reg));	\
> +		u64 __new = __zcr & ~ZCR_ELx_LEN_MASK;	\
> +		__new |= (val) & ZCR_ELx_LEN_MASK;	\
> +		if (__zcr != __new)			\
> +			write_sysreg_s(__new, (reg));	\
> +	} while (0)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

Will



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