Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 2019 12:12:31 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] arch/arm64: fpsimd: Introduce fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state() and use it |
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On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 06:21:38PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > The only external user of fpsimd_save() and fpsimd_flush_cpu_state() is > the KVM FPSIMD code. > > A following patch will introduce a mechanism to acquire owernship of the > FPSIMD/SVE context for performing context management operations. Rather > than having to export the new helpers to get/put the context, we can just > introduce a new function to combine fpsimd_save() and > fpsimd_flush_cpu_state(). > > This has also the advantage to remove any external call of fpsimd_save() > and fpsimd_flush_cpu_state(), so they can be turned static. > > Lastly, the new function can also be used in the PM notifier. > > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> > Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> [...] > --- > arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h | 4 +--- > arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- > arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c | 4 +--- > 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Marc, since this touches KVM, can I get an ack on this patch? I plan to queue the series.
Thanks.
-- Catalin
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