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SubjectRe: [RFT PATCH v2 2/4] arm64: restore FPSIMD to default state for kernel and signal contexts
On 10/14/2013 11:16 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> 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...
Hi Will,
We will add an explicit "volatile" here. But according to GCC docs, it
should have the same effect:
An asm instruction without any output operands is treated identically to
a volatile asm instruction.
Thanks!
Gerry

>
>> 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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