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Support for kernel-mode NEON to be nested and/or used in hardirq
context adds significant complexity, and the benefits may be
marginal. In practice, kernel-mode NEON is not used in hardirq
context, and is rarely used in softirq context (by certain mac80211
drivers).
This patch implements an arm64 may_use_simd() function to allow
clients to check whether kernel-mode NEON is usable in the current
context, and simplifies kernel_neon_{begin,end}() to handle only
saving of the task FPSIMD state (if any). Without nesting, there
is no other state to save.
The partial fpsimd save/restore functions become redundant as a
result of these changes, so they are removed too.
The save/restore model is changed to operate directly on
task_struct without additional percpu storage. This simplifies the
code and saves a bit of memory, but means that softirqs must now be
disabled when manipulating the task fpsimd state from task context:
correspondingly, preempt_{en,dis}sable() calls are upgraded to
local_bh_{en,dis}able() as appropriate. fpsimd_thread_switch()
already runs with hardirqs disabled and so is already protected
from softirqs.
These changes should make it easier to support kernel-mode NEON in
the presence of the Scalable Vector extension in the future.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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ArmAsm
/*
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* FP/SIMD state saving and restoring
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
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* Author: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation.
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*
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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* GNU General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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*/
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#include <linux/linkage.h>
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#include <asm/assembler.h>
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#include <asm/fpsimdmacros.h>
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/*
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* Save the FP registers.
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*
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* x0 - pointer to struct fpsimd_state
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*/
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ENTRY(fpsimd_save_state)
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fpsimd_save x0, 8
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ret
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ENDPROC(fpsimd_save_state)
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/*
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* Load the FP registers.
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*
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* x0 - pointer to struct fpsimd_state
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*/
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ENTRY(fpsimd_load_state)
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fpsimd_restore x0, 8
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ret
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ENDPROC(fpsimd_load_state)
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