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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-06-14 18:16:47 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-06-14 18:16:47 +0200 |
commit | 72a20cee5d99d231809ee4d3d2c09a96a25451e2 (patch) | |
tree | 140c1480236bd8026f2dbcb951ac7f898cccc24f /Documentation | |
parent | Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) (diff) | |
parent | arm64/sve: Fix missing SVE/FPSIMD endianness conversions (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
"Here are some arm64 fixes for -rc5.
The only non-trivial change (in terms of the diffstat) is fixing our
SVE ptrace API for big-endian machines, but the majority of this is
actually the addition of much-needed comments and updates to the
documentation to try to avoid this mess biting us again in future.
There are still a couple of small things on the horizon, but nothing
major at this point.
Summary:
- Fix broken SVE ptrace API when running in a big-endian configuration
- Fix performance regression due to off-by-one in TLBI range checking
- Fix build regression when using Clang"
* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
arm64/sve: Fix missing SVE/FPSIMD endianness conversions
arm64: tlbflush: Ensure start/end of address range are aligned to stride
arm64: Don't unconditionally add -Wno-psabi to KBUILD_CFLAGS
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/sve.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt index 9940e924a47e..5689fc9a976a 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt @@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ model features for SVE is included in Appendix A. is to connect to a target process first and then attempt a ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_ARM_SVE, &iov). +* Whenever SVE scalable register values (Zn, Pn, FFR) are exchanged in memory + between userspace and the kernel, the register value is encoded in memory in + an endianness-invariant layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] encoded at + byte offset i from the start of the memory representation. This affects for + example the signal frame (struct sve_context) and ptrace interface + (struct user_sve_header) and associated data. + + Beware that on big-endian systems this results in a different byte order than + for the FPSIMD V-registers, which are stored as single host-endian 128-bit + values, with bits [(127 - 8 * i) : (120 - 8 * i)] of the register encoded at + byte offset i. (struct fpsimd_context, struct user_fpsimd_state). + 2. Vector length terminology ----------------------------- @@ -124,6 +136,10 @@ the SVE instruction set architecture. size and layout. Macros SVE_SIG_* are defined [1] to facilitate access to the members. +* Each scalable register (Zn, Pn, FFR) is stored in an endianness-invariant + layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] stored at byte offset i from the + start of the register's representation in memory. + * If the SVE context is too big to fit in sigcontext.__reserved[], then extra space is allocated on the stack, an extra_context record is written in __reserved[] referencing this space. sve_context is then written in the |