Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] arm64/sve: Implement an helper to flush SVE registers

[Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 05:16:53PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> Introduce a new helper that will zero all SVE registers but the first
> 128-bits of each vector.

Maybe mention that the helper will be used by a subsequent patch.  For
now, it's dead code.

Maybe also mention briefly what this will be used for: i.e., to avoid
the costly store/munge/reload sequences currently used by things like
do_sve_acc().

> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
> 
> ---
>     Changes in v2:
>         - Fix typo in the commit title
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h       |  3 +++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/entry-fpsimd.S      |  7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> index df62bbd33a9a..fda3544c9606 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> @@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ static inline void *sve_pffr(struct thread_struct *thread)
>  extern void sve_save_state(void *state, u32 *pfpsr);
>  extern void sve_load_state(void const *state, u32 const *pfpsr,
>  			   unsigned long vq_minus_1);
> +
> +extern void sve_flush_live(void);
> +

We probably don't need the extra blank lines here... these operations
are all closely related low-level backend functions.

>  extern unsigned int sve_get_vl(void);
>  
>  struct arm64_cpu_capabilities;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
> index 5e291d9c1ba0..a41ab337bf42 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimdmacros.h
> @@ -175,6 +175,13 @@
>  		| ((\np) << 5)
>  .endm
>  
> +/* PFALSE P\np.B */
> +.macro _sve_pfalse np
> +	_sve_check_preg \np
> +	.inst	0x2518e400			\
> +		| (\np)
> +.endm
> +
>  .macro __for from:req, to:req
>  	.if (\from) == (\to)
>  		_for__body %\from
> @@ -209,6 +216,18 @@
>  921:
>  .endm
>  
> +/* Preserve the first 128-bits of Znz and zero the rest. */
> +.macro _sve_flush_z nz
> +	_sve_check_zreg \nz
> +	mov	v\nz\().16b, v\nz\().16b
> +.endm
> +
> +.macro sve_flush
> + _for n, 0, 31, _sve_flush_z	\n
> + _for n, 0, 15, _sve_pfalse	\n
> +		_sve_wrffr	0
> +.endm
> +
>  .macro sve_save nxbase, xpfpsr, nxtmp
>   _for n, 0, 31,	_sve_str_v	\n, \nxbase, \n - 34
>   _for n, 0, 15,	_sve_str_p	\n, \nxbase, \n - 16
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-fpsimd.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-fpsimd.S
> index 12d4958e6429..17121a51c41f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-fpsimd.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-fpsimd.S
> @@ -57,4 +57,11 @@ ENTRY(sve_get_vl)
>  	_sve_rdvl	0, 1
>  	ret
>  ENDPROC(sve_get_vl)
> +
> +/* Zero all SVE registers but the first 128-bits of each vector */
> +ENTRY(sve_flush_live)
> +	sve_flush
> +	ret
> +ENDPROC(sve_flush_live)
> +
>  #endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_SVE */

The extra blank line makes this more readable, but in the interests
of symmetry can you also add a blank after the corresponding #ifdef?

[...]

With those addressed as appropriate,

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>

Cheers
---Dave

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