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 B5BECC433F5 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:16:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [128.59.11.253]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673D4610FF for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:16:59 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org 673D4610FF Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.cs.columbia.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106FB4B1BC; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:16:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: at lists.cs.columbia.edu Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3kgHqzeK-ZCZ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:16:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4EE4B1DD; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:16:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809E44B1AB for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:16:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: at lists.cs.columbia.edu Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gAgoc4iiHznj for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:16:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EA524B1BA for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:16:49 -0400 (EDT) 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 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 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 Cc: kernel-team@android.com, Will Deacon , broonie@kernel.org X-BeenThere: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Where KVM/ARM decisions are made List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu 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 _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm