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Currently, the FPSIMD register file is not preserved and restored along with the general registers on exception entry/exit or context switch. For this reason, we disable preemption when enabling FPSIMD for kernel mode use in task context, and suspend the processing of softirqs so that there are no concurrent uses in the kernel. (Kernel mode FPSIMD may not be used at all in other contexts). Disabling preemption while doing CPU intensive work on inputs of potentially unbounded size is bad for real-time performance, which is why we try and ensure that SIMD crypto code does not operate on more than ~4k at a time, which is an arbitrary limit and requires assembler code to implement efficiently. We can avoid the need for disabling preemption if we can ensure that any in-kernel users of the NEON will not lose the FPSIMD register state across a context switch. And given that disabling softirqs implicitly disables preemption as well, we will also have to ensure that a softirq that runs code using FPSIMD can safely interrupt an in-kernel user. So introduce a thread_info flag TIF_KERNEL_FPSTATE, and modify the context switch hook for FPSIMD to preserve and restore the kernel mode FPSIMD to/from struct thread_struct when it is set. This avoids any scheduling blackouts due to prolonged use of FPSIMD in kernel mode, without the need for manual yielding. In order to support softirq processing while FPSIMD is being used in kernel task context, use the same flag to decide whether the kernel mode FPSIMD state needs to be preserved and restored before allowing FPSIMD to be used in softirq context. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208113218.3001940-8-ardb@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.