From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 12:03:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v5 14/14] KVM: arm64: Invoke FPSIMD context switch trap
 from C
In-Reply-To: <1525449935-31424-15-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com>
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 <1525449935-31424-15-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com>
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On 04/05/18 17:05, Dave Martin wrote:
> The conversion of the FPSIMD context switch trap code to C has added
> some overhead to calling it, due to the need to save registers that
> the procedure call standard defines as caller-saved.
> 
> So, perhaps it is no longer worth invoking this trap handler quite
> so early.
> 
> Instead, we can invoke it from fixup_guest_exit(), with little
> likelihood of increasing the overhead much further.
> 
> As a convenience, this patch gives __hyp_switch_fpsimd() the same
> return semantics fixup_guest_exit().  For now there is no
> possibility of a spurious FPSIMD trap, so the function always
> returns true, but this allows it to be tail-called with a single
> return statement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

	M.
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