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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/2] arm64: Support systems without FP/ASIMD
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 01:56:19PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> This series adds supports to the kernel and KVM hyp to handle
> systems without FP/ASIMD properly. At the moment the kernel
> doesn't check if the FP unit is available before accessing
> the registers (e.g during context switch). Also for KVM,
> we trap the FP/ASIMD accesses and handle it by injecting an
> undefined instruction into the VM on systems without FP.
>
> Tested on a FVP_Base-AEM-v8A model by disabling VFP on at
> least one CPU ( -C clusterX.cpuY.vfp-present=0 ).
>
> Changes since V2:
> - Dropped cleanup patch for arm64/crypto/aes-ce-ccm-glue.c
> - Removed static_key check from cpus_have_cap. All users with
> constant caps should use the new API to make use of static_keys.
> - Removed a dedicated static_key used in irqchip-gic-v3.c for
> Cavium errata with the new API.
>
> Applies on v4.9-rc4 + [1] (which is pushed for rc5)
>
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=147819889813214&w=2

I queued the patches for 4.10 with a slight modification as I haven't
cherry-picked the patch above. I'll push the for-next/core branch out
once I've done some testing.

Thanks.

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Catalin

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