arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes
authorDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:51:06 +0000 (15:51 +0000)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 3 Nov 2017 15:24:16 +0000 (15:24 +0000)
It's desirable to be able to reset the vector length to some sane
default for new processes, since the new binary and its libraries
may or may not be SVE-aware.

This patch tracks the desired post-exec vector length (if any) in a
new thread member sve_vl_onexec, and adds a new thread flag
TIF_SVE_VL_INHERIT to control whether to inherit or reset the
vector length.  Currently these are inactive.  Subsequent patches
will provide the capability to configure them.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c

index e2f575dbdddd50d94a248b3c10d13a8c1c93493b..c6fddb005dc23d21b69ffe49b4ce12c37c5e3d8a 100644 (file)
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ struct thread_struct {
        struct fpsimd_state     fpsimd_state;
        void                    *sve_state;     /* SVE registers, if any */
        unsigned int            sve_vl;         /* SVE vector length */
+       unsigned int            sve_vl_onexec;  /* SVE vl after next exec */
        unsigned long           fault_address;  /* fault info */
        unsigned long           fault_code;     /* ESR_EL1 value */
        struct debug_info       debug;          /* debugging */
index 92b7b48576c8771b1a2e5fb9511a01fdb8d2900e..eb431286bacd057b8766ebe2af1b021bd29f2949 100644 (file)
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ void arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk);
 #define TIF_SINGLESTEP         21
 #define TIF_32BIT              22      /* 32bit process */
 #define TIF_SVE                        23      /* Scalable Vector Extension in use */
+#define TIF_SVE_VL_INHERIT     24      /* Inherit sve_vl_onexec across exec */
 
 #define _TIF_SIGPENDING                (1 << TIF_SIGPENDING)
 #define _TIF_NEED_RESCHED      (1 << TIF_NEED_RESCHED)
index 000b5f9215c6b58f5a2addb9637dd7ddb19fbe53..c7531b85b303e4df7ebb2c596833db4065ff191b 100644 (file)
  */
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct fpsimd_state *, fpsimd_last_state);
 
+/* Default VL for tasks that don't set it explicitly: */
+static int sve_default_vl = SVE_VL_MIN;
+
 /*
  * Call __sve_free() directly only if you know task can't be scheduled
  * or preempted.
@@ -474,15 +477,20 @@ void fpsimd_flush_thread(void)
                 * If a bug causes this to go wrong, we make some noise and
                 * try to fudge thread.sve_vl to a safe value here.
                 */
-               vl = current->thread.sve_vl;
-
-               if (vl == 0)
-                       vl = SVE_VL_MIN;
+               vl = current->thread.sve_vl_onexec ?
+                       current->thread.sve_vl_onexec : sve_default_vl;
 
                if (WARN_ON(!sve_vl_valid(vl)))
                        vl = SVE_VL_MIN;
 
                current->thread.sve_vl = vl;
+
+               /*
+                * If the task is not set to inherit, ensure that the vector
+                * length will be reset by a subsequent exec:
+                */
+               if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_SVE_VL_INHERIT))
+                       current->thread.sve_vl_onexec = 0;
        }
 
        set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE);