Re: [PATCH v2 11/28] arm64/sve: Core task context handling

Catalin Marinas
2017-09-13T22:21:29Z

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 08:17:07PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:26:05AM -0700, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 06:00:43PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * Trapped SVE access
> > > + */
> > > +void do_sve_acc(unsigned int esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
> > > +{
> > > + /* Even if we chose not to use SVE, the hardware could still trap: */
> > > + if (unlikely(!system_supports_sve()) || WARN_ON(is_compat_task())) {
> > > + force_signal_inject(SIGILL, ILL_ILLOPC, regs, 0);
> > > + return;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + task_fpsimd_save();
> > > +
> > > + sve_alloc(current);
> > > + fpsimd_to_sve(current);
> > > + if (test_and_set_thread_flag(TIF_SVE))
> > > + WARN_ON(1); /* SVE access shouldn't have trapped */
> > > +
> > > + task_fpsimd_load();
> > > +}
> >
> > When this function is entered, do we expect TIF_SVE to always be
> > cleared? It's worth adding a comment on the expected conditions. If
>
> Yes, and this is required for correctness, as you observe.
>
> I had a BUG_ON() here which I removed, but it makes sense to add a
> comment to capture the precondition here, and how it is satisfied.
>
> > that's the case, task_fpsimd_save() would only save the FPSIMD state
> > which is fine. However, you subsequently transfer the FPSIMD state to
> > SVE, set TIF_SVE and restore the full SVE state. If we don't care about
> > the SVE state here, can we call task_fpsimd_load() *before* setting
> > TIF_SVE?
>
> There should be no way to reach this code with TIF_SVE set, unless
> task_fpsimd_load() sets the CPACR trap bit wrongly, or the hardware is
> broken -- either of which is a bug.

Thanks for confirming my assumptions. What I meant was rewriting the
above function as:

/* reset the SVE state (other than FPSIMD) */
task_fpsimd_save();
task_fpsimd_load();

sve_alloc(current);
set_thread_flag(TIF_SVE);

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Catalin