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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>,
	Luis Machado <Luis.Machado@arm.com>,
	Salil Akerkar <Salil.Akerkar@arm.com>,
	Basant KumarDwivedi <Basant.KumarDwivedi@arm.com>,
	James Morse <James.Morse@arm.com>,
	Alexandru Elisei <Alexandru.Elisei@arm.com>,
	Suzuki Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 06/40] arm64/sme: Provide ABI documentation for SME
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 19:50:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yk3hDLe8Cce8zkvI@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YkXRUlaoyDKQqndc@arm.com>


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On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 04:05:38PM +0000, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:

> i think it's slightly better to treat ZA like TPIDR2,
> so only clear if CLONE_SETTLS is set.

> otherwise in principle the child can return to the frame
> where ZA was used and expect it to work (it's hard to
> come up with a reason why would some code do that, but
> this is valid in a single-threaded fork child).

From an implementation point of view it's a bit clearer if we just
always preserve PSTATE.ZA and ZA contents on clone() and clear them on
exec.  Do you see a problem with that?

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-06 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-25 16:58 [PATCH v12 00/40] arm64/sme: Initial support for the Scalable Matrix Extension Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 01/40] arm64: Define CPACR_EL1_FPEN similarly to other floating point controls Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 02/40] arm64: Always use individual bits in CPACR floating point enables Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 03/40] arm64: cpufeature: Always specify and use a field width for capabilities Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 04/40] kselftest/arm64: Remove local ARRAY_SIZE() definitions Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 05/40] kselftest/arm64: signal: Allow tests to be incompatible with features Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 06/40] arm64/sme: Provide ABI documentation for SME Mark Brown
2022-03-02 17:23   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-03-11 17:21   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2022-03-11 18:42     ` Mark Brown
2022-03-31 16:05       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2022-04-06 18:50         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2022-04-07 15:26           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2022-06-06 10:35   ` Luis Machado
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 07/40] arm64/sme: System register and exception syndrome definitions Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 08/40] arm64/sme: Manually encode SME instructions Mark Brown
2022-03-02 14:35   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 09/40] arm64/sme: Early CPU setup for SME Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 10/40] arm64/sme: Basic enumeration support Mark Brown
2022-03-02 16:29   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 11/40] arm64/sme: Identify supported SME vector lengths at boot Mark Brown
2022-03-02 16:41   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-03-16 21:32   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 12/40] arm64/sme: Implement sysctl to set the default vector length Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 13/40] arm64/sme: Implement vector length configuration prctl()s Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 14/40] arm64/sme: Implement support for TPIDR2 Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 15/40] arm64/sme: Implement SVCR context switching Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:58 ` [PATCH v12 16/40] arm64/sme: Implement streaming SVE " Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 17/40] arm64/sme: Implement ZA " Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 18/40] arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME Mark Brown
2022-03-02 17:07   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 19/40] arm64/sme: Disable ZA and streaming mode when handling signals Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 20/40] arm64/sme: Implement streaming SVE signal handling Mark Brown
2022-03-02 17:09   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-03-16 22:38   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 21/40] arm64/sme: Implement ZA " Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 22/40] arm64/sme: Implement ptrace support for streaming mode SVE registers Mark Brown
2022-03-02 17:11   ` Catalin Marinas
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 23/40] arm64/sme: Add ptrace support for ZA Mark Brown
2022-03-15 21:51   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 24/40] arm64/sme: Disable streaming mode and ZA when flushing CPU state Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 25/40] arm64/sme: Save and restore streaming mode over EFI runtime calls Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 26/40] KVM: arm64: Hide SME system registers from guests Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 27/40] KVM: arm64: Trap SME usage in guest Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 28/40] KVM: arm64: Handle SME host state when running guests Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 29/40] arm64/sme: Provide Kconfig for SME Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 30/40] kselftest/arm64: Add manual encodings for SME instructions Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 31/40] kselftest/arm64: sme: Add SME support to vlset Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 32/40] kselftest/arm64: Add tests for TPIDR2 Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 33/40] kselftest/arm64: Extend vector configuration API tests to cover SME Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 34/40] kselftest/arm64: sme: Provide streaming mode SVE stress test Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 35/40] kselftest/arm64: signal: Handle ZA signal context in core code Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 36/40] kselftest/arm64: Add stress test for SME ZA context switching Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 37/40] kselftest/arm64: signal: Add SME signal handling tests Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 38/40] kselftest/arm64: Add streaming SVE to SVE ptrace tests Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 39/40] kselftest/arm64: Add coverage for the ZA ptrace interface Mark Brown
2022-02-25 16:59 ` [PATCH v12 40/40] kselftest/arm64: Add SME support to syscall ABI test Mark Brown

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