[v3,17/28] arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use
Commit Message
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@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Comments
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@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
@@ -909,8 +909,10 @@ void kernel_neon_begin(void)
__this_cpu_write(kernel_neon_busy, true);
/* Save unsaved task fpsimd state, if any: */
- if (current->mm && !test_and_set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE))
- fpsimd_save_state(¤t->thread.fpsimd_state);
+ if (current->mm) {
+ task_fpsimd_save();
+ set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE);
+ }
/* Invalidate any task state remaining in the fpsimd regs: */
__this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state, NULL);