From: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm•com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm•com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org, kvmarm@lists•linux.dev
Cc: broonie@kernel•org, catalin.marinas@arm•com, james.morse@arm•com,
maz@kernel•org, oupton@kernel•org, tabba@google•com,
will@kernel•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] KVM: arm64: Don't override FFR save/restore argument
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 11:16:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e7de0e4-2bc8-4391-82ff-23a0063f513d@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260521132556.584676-3-mark.rutland@arm.com>
On 5/21/26 14:25, Mark Rutland wrote:
> The __sve_save_state() and __sve_restore_state() functions take a
> parameter describing whether to save/restore the FFR, but both functions
> silently override this with '1'. This has always been benign (and
> callers have all passed 'true' since the parameter was introduced), but
> clearly this is not intentional.
>
> Historically, the functions always saved/restored the FFR, and there was
> no parameter to control this.
>
> In v5.16, the sve_save and sve_load assembly macros used by
> __sve_save_state() and __sve_restore_state() were changed to make
> saving/restoring FFR optional. The implementations of __sve_save_state()
> and __sve_restore_state() were changed to pass '1' to their respective
> macros, and the prototypes of __sve_save_state() and
> __sve_restore_state() were unchanged. See commit:
>
> 9f5848665788 ("arm64/sve: Make access to FFR optional")
>
> In v6.10, the prototypes of __sve_save_state() and __sve_restore_state()
> were changed to add 'save_ffr' and 'restore_ffr' parameters
> respectively, but the implementations were not changed to stop passing 1
> to their respective macros. All callers were changed to pass 'true' to
> __sve_save_state() and __sve_restore_state(). See commit:
>
> 45f4ea9bcfe9 ("KVM: arm64: Fix prototype for __sve_save_state/__sve_restore_state")
>
> This is all benign, but clearly unintentional, and it gets in the way of
> cleaning up the FPSIMD/SVE/SME code. Remove the unnecessary overriding.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm•com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>
> Cc: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google•com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm•com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel•org>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel•org>
> Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel•org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel•org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/fpsimd.S | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/fpsimd.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/fpsimd.S
> index e950875e31cee..6e16cbfc5df27 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/fpsimd.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/fpsimd.S
> @@ -21,13 +21,11 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__fpsimd_restore_state)
> SYM_FUNC_END(__fpsimd_restore_state)
>
> SYM_FUNC_START(__sve_restore_state)
> - mov x2, #1
> sve_load 0, x1, x2, 3
> ret
> SYM_FUNC_END(__sve_restore_state)
>
> SYM_FUNC_START(__sve_save_state)
> - mov x2, #1
> sve_save 0, x1, x2, 3
> ret
> SYM_FUNC_END(__sve_save_state)
> -- 2.30.2
>
FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm•com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-27 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-21 13:25 [PATCH 00/18] arm64+KVM: FPSIMD/SVE/SME cleanups Mark Rutland
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 01/18] KVM: arm64: Don't include <asm/fpsimdmacros.h> Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 14:18 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 10:10 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 02/18] KVM: arm64: Don't override FFR save/restore argument Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 14:27 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 10:16 ` Vladimir Murzin [this message]
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 03/18] KVM: arm64: pkvm: Save host FPMR in host cpu context Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 10:29 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 04/18] KVM: arm64: pkvm: Remove struct cpu_sve_state Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 11:58 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-27 16:02 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 16:11 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-28 15:09 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-28 15:12 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 05/18] arm64: fpsimd: Fold sve_init_regs() into do_sve_acc() Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 15:28 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 12:05 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 06/18] arm64: fpsimd: Remove sve_set_vq() and sme_set_vq() Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 15:42 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 12:50 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 07/18] arm64: fpsimd: Use assembler for SVE instructions Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 15:43 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 12:58 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-27 16:10 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 08/18] arm64: fpsimd: Use assembler for baseline SME instructions Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 15:45 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 13:06 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 09/18] arm64: fpsimd: Move sve_get_vl() and sme_get_vl() inline Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 15:47 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 13:18 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 10/18] arm64: sysreg: Add FPCR and FPSR Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 15:55 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-26 16:51 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 16:54 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 11/18] arm64: fpsimd: Split FPSR/FPCR from SVE save/restore Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 16:28 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 13:51 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 14:13 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 16:13 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 13:44 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 12/18] arm64: fpsimd: Move fpsimd save/restore inline Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 16:44 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-28 16:15 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-28 16:39 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 14:49 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-27 15:34 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 16:13 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 13/18] arm64: fpsimd: Use opaque type for SVE state Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 16:53 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-28 9:45 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-28 16:25 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 14/18] arm64: fpsimd: Use opaque type for SME state Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 16:56 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-28 9:51 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 15/18] arm64: fpsimd: Move SVE save/restore inline Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 12:29 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-28 10:39 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 16/18] arm64: fpsimd: Move sve_flush_live() inline Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 12:54 ` Mark Brown
2026-05-27 16:23 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-28 10:49 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 17/18] arm64: fpsimd: Move SME save/restore inline Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 14:08 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 14:39 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-26 15:28 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-26 16:38 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 9:00 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-29 9:10 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-28 12:30 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-28 14:39 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-21 13:25 ` [PATCH 18/18] arm64: fpsimd: Remove <asm/fpsimdmacros.h> Mark Rutland
2026-05-28 13:10 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-27 8:07 ` [PATCH 00/18] arm64+KVM: FPSIMD/SVE/SME cleanups Marc Zyngier
2026-05-27 10:32 ` Mark Rutland
2026-05-27 14:36 ` Will Deacon
2026-05-28 13:21 ` Vladimir Murzin
2026-05-28 16:28 ` Mark Rutland
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