Re: [PATCH -next v17 08/20] riscv: Introduce struct/helpers to save/restore per-task Vector state

Heiko Stübner
2023-03-31T11:05:27Z

Am Montag, 27. März 2023, 18:49:28 CEST schrieb Andy Chiu:
> From: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
>
> Add vector state context struct to be added later in thread_struct. And
> prepare low-level helper functions to save/restore vector contexts.
>
> This include Vector Regfile and CSRs holding dynamic configuration state
> (vstart, vl, vtype, vcsr). The Vec Register width could be implementation
> defined, but same for all processes, so that is saved separately.
>
> This is not yet wired into final thread_struct - will be done when
> __switch_to actually starts doing this in later patches.
>
> Given the variable (and potentially large) size of regfile, they are
> saved in dynamically allocated memory, pointed to by datap pointer in
> __riscv_v_ext_state.
>
> Co-developed-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime.hu@sifive.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vineetg@rivosinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
> Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
> Reviewed-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>

Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@vrull.eu>