From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F959C433EF for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49091610FF for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230077AbhJ1LTV (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:19:21 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:57072 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230216AbhJ1LTN (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:19:13 -0400 Received: from disco-boy.misterjones.org (disco-boy.misterjones.org [51.254.78.96]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1089E6112E; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:16:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sofa.misterjones.org ([185.219.108.64] helo=why.lan) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mg3On-002BtD-6b; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:16:45 +0100 From: Marc Zyngier To: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: James Morse , Suzuki K Poulose , Alexandru Elisei , Quentin Perret , Will Deacon , broonie@kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] arm64/fpsimd: Document the use of TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE by KVM Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:16:40 +0100 Message-Id: <20211028111640.3663631-6-maz@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.2 In-Reply-To: <20211028111640.3663631-1-maz@kernel.org> References: <20211028111640.3663631-1-maz@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, james.morse@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, alexandru.elisei@arm.com, qperret@google.com, will@kernel.org, broonie@kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org The bit of documentation that talks about TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE does not mention the ungodly tricks that KVM plays with this flag. Try and document this for the posterity. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier --- arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c index ff4962750b3d..1fbd6ba7dbac 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c @@ -78,7 +78,11 @@ * indicate whether or not the userland FPSIMD state of the current task is * present in the registers. The flag is set unless the FPSIMD registers of this * CPU currently contain the most recent userland FPSIMD state of the current - * task. + * task. If the task is behaving as a VMM, then this is will be managed by + * KVM which will clear it to indicate that the vcpu FPSIMD state is currently + * loaded on the CPU, allowing the state to be saved if a FPSIMD-aware + * softirq kicks in. Upon vcpu_put(), KVM will save the vcpu FP state and + * flag the register state as invalid. * * In order to allow softirq handlers to use FPSIMD, kernel_neon_begin() may * save the task's FPSIMD context back to task_struct from softirq context. -- 2.30.2