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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: fpsimd: avoid restoring fpcr if the contents haven't changed
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:03:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140630090318.GB24879@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu_-nPg5eGj1MHXui=2QkDPGFgjh=4dZhODj984KCGqGEA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:33:58PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 27 June 2014 17:53, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > Writing to the FPCR is commonly implemented as a self-synchronising
> > operation in the CPU, so avoid writing to the register when the saved
> > value matches that in the hardware already.

[...]

> >  .macro fpsimd_restore_partial state, tmpnr1, tmpnr2
> >         ldp     w\tmpnr1, w\tmpnr2, [\state]
> >         msr     fpsr, x\tmpnr1
> > -       msr     fpcr, x\tmpnr2
> > +       fpsimd_restore_fpcr x\tmpnr1, x\tmpnr2
> 
> Ehm, isn't this the wrong way around?

Yup, well spotted. I'll give the crypto selftests a run to test this path
with the fix (I was just running paranoia in userspace before).

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-30  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-27 15:53 [PATCH v2] arm64: fpsimd: avoid restoring fpcr if the contents haven't changed Will Deacon
2014-06-27 17:33 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-06-30  9:03   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-06-30 10:26     ` Ard Biesheuvel

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