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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: fpsimd: Fix failure to restore FPSIMD state after signals
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:08:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171130120847.GC21983@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1512042997-25945-1-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com>

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:56:37AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> The fpsimd_update_current_state() function is responsible for
> loading the FPSIMD state from the user signal frame into the
> current task during sigreturn.  When implementing support for SVE,
> conditional code was added to this function in order to handle the
> case where SVE state need to be loaded for the task and merged with
> the FPSIMD data from the signal frame; however, the FPSIMD-only
> case was unintentionally dropped.
> 
> As a result of this, sigreturn does not currently restore the
> FPSIMD state of the task, except in the case where the system
> supports SVE and the signal frame contains SVE state in addition to
> FPSIMD state.
> 
> This patch fixes this bug by making the copy-in of the FPSIMD data
> from the signal frame to thread_struct unconditional.
> 
> This remains a performance regression from v4.14, since the FPSIMD
> state is now copied into thread_struct and then loaded back,
> instead of _only_ being loaded into the CPU FPSIMD registers.
> However, it is essential to call task_fpsimd_load() here anyway in
> order to ensure that the SVE enable bit in CPACR_EL1 is set
> correctly before returning to userspace.  This could use some
> refactoring, but since sigreturn is not a fast path I have kept
> this patch as a pure fix and left the refactoring for later.
> 
> Fixes: 8cd969d28fd2 ("arm64/sve: Signal handling support")
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> Reported-by: Alex Benn?e <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---
> 
> Initial testing of this patch looks OK, but I will continue to bash it.
> 
> While debugging this issue, I also hit another possible register
> corruption issue that I don't have an explanation for, but I wanted to
> get this patch out first since this issue at least is fairly
> straightforward and fixing it is required anyway.
> 
> I will continue to investigate.
> 
>  arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> index 143b3e7..5084e69 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> @@ -1026,10 +1026,10 @@ void fpsimd_update_current_state(struct fpsimd_state *state)
>  
>  	local_bh_disable();
>  
> -	if (system_supports_sve() && test_thread_flag(TIF_SVE)) {
> -		current->thread.fpsimd_state = *state;
> +	current->thread.fpsimd_state = *state;
> +	if (system_supports_sve() && test_thread_flag(TIF_SVE))
>  		fpsimd_to_sve(current);
> -	}
> +

Curious, but does the order in which you set TIF_SVE matter? If not, you
could move the TIF_SVE check into fpsimd_to_sve and reorder the flag setting
in do_sve_acc so that we don't need to conditionalise all invocations of
this.

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-30 11:56 [PATCH] arm64: fpsimd: Fix failure to restore FPSIMD state after signals Dave Martin
2017-11-30 12:08 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2017-11-30 12:32   ` Dave Martin
2017-11-30 16:27 ` Alex Bennée
2017-11-30 16:30   ` Dave Martin
2017-11-30 16:29 ` Dave Martin

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