(subset) [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64/sve: Document our actual SVE syscall ABI
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Sep 6 10:47:39 PDT 2022
On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:24:59 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Currently our SVE syscall ABI documentation does not reflect the actual
> implemented ABI, it says that register state not shared with FPSIMD
> becomes undefined on syscall when in reality we always clear it. Since
> changing this would cause a change in the observed kernel behaviour
> there is a substantial desire to avoid taking advantage of the
> documented ABI so instead let's document what we actually do so it's
> clear that it is in reality an ABI.
>
> [...]
Applied to arm64 (for-next/doc), thanks!
[2/3] arm64/sve: Document our actual ABI for clearing registers on syscall
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/d09ee410a3c3
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