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author | Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> | 2021-10-21 16:33:22 +0200 |
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committer | Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> | 2021-11-22 17:01:39 +0100 |
commit | 31aa126de88e1e9f562f708a9b0ec5917ba97dce (patch) | |
tree | b94141a89318064abf35a032145766360f4ae2f6 /arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | |
parent | KVM: arm64: Stop mapping current thread_info at EL2 (diff) | |
download | linux-31aa126de88e1e9f562f708a9b0ec5917ba97dce.tar.xz linux-31aa126de88e1e9f562f708a9b0ec5917ba97dce.zip |
arm64/fpsimd: Document the use of TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE by KVM
The bit of documentation that talks about TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE
does not mention the ungodly tricks that KVM plays with this flag.
Try and document this for the posterity.
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c index fa244c426f61..6fb361e8bed8 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c @@ -78,7 +78,11 @@ * indicate whether or not the userland FPSIMD state of the current task is * present in the registers. The flag is set unless the FPSIMD registers of this * CPU currently contain the most recent userland FPSIMD state of the current - * task. + * task. If the task is behaving as a VMM, then this is will be managed by + * KVM which will clear it to indicate that the vcpu FPSIMD state is currently + * loaded on the CPU, allowing the state to be saved if a FPSIMD-aware + * softirq kicks in. Upon vcpu_put(), KVM will save the vcpu FP state and + * flag the register state as invalid. * * In order to allow softirq handlers to use FPSIMD, kernel_neon_begin() may * save the task's FPSIMD context back to task_struct from softirq context. |