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SubjectRe: [RFT PATCH v2 2/4] arm64: restore FPSIMD to default state for kernel and signal contexts
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 03:20:18PM +0100, Jiang Liu wrote:
> From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
>
> Restore FPSIMD control and status registers to default values
> when creating new FPSIMD contexts for kernel context and reset
> FPSIMD status register when creating FPSIMD context for signal
> handling, otherwise the stale value in FPSIMD control and status
> registers may affect the new kernal or signal handling contexts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 11 +++++++++--
> arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> index c43b4ac..b2dc30f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> @@ -50,8 +50,24 @@ struct fpsimd_state {
> #define VFP_STATE_SIZE ((32 * 8) + 4)
> #endif
>
> +#define AARCH64_FPCR_DEFAULT_VAL 0
> +
> struct task_struct;
>
> +static inline void fpsimd_init_hw_state(void)
> +{
> + int val = AARCH64_FPCR_DEFAULT_VAL;
> +
> + asm ("msr fpcr, %x0\n"
> + "msr fpsr, xzr\n"
> + : : "r"(val));
> +}
> +
> +static inline void fpsimd_clear_fpsr(void)
> +{
> + asm ("msr fpsr, xzr\n");
> +}

You have pretty weak asm constraints here...

> extern void fpsimd_save_state(struct fpsimd_state *state);
> extern void fpsimd_load_state(struct fpsimd_state *state);
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> index bb785d2..12a25e5 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> @@ -80,9 +80,14 @@ void fpsimd_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
>
> void fpsimd_flush_thread(void)
> {
> + struct fpsimd_state *state = &current->thread.fpsimd_state;
> +
> preempt_disable();
> - memset(&current->thread.fpsimd_state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
> - fpsimd_load_state(&current->thread.fpsimd_state);
> + memset(state, 0, sizeof(struct fpsimd_state));
> +#if (AARCH64_FPCR_DEFAULT_VAL != 0)
> + state->fpcr = AARCH64_FPCR_DEFAULT_VAL;
> +#endif
> + fpsimd_load_state(state);
> preempt_enable();
> }
>
> @@ -99,6 +104,8 @@ void kernel_neon_begin(void)
>
> if (current->mm)
> fpsimd_save_state(&current->thread.fpsimd_state);
> +
> + fpsimd_init_hw_state();
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_neon_begin);
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> index 890a591..4ee231e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static int preserve_fpsimd_context(struct fpsimd_context __user *ctx)
>
> /* dump the hardware registers to the fpsimd_state structure */
> fpsimd_save_state(fpsimd);
> + fpsimd_clear_fpsr();

... so I reckon GCC could reorder these two calls, resulting in corruption
of the saved state register.

Will


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