[PATCH v2 14/28] arm64/sve: Backend logic for setting the vector length
From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
Date: 2017-09-13 17:29:11
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kvmarm, linux-arch
From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
Date: 2017-09-13 17:29:11
Also in:
kvmarm, linux-arch
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Dave P Martin wrote:
This patch implements the core logic for changing a task's vector length on request from userspace. This will be used by the ptrace and prctl frontends that are implemented in later patches. The SVE architecture permits, but does not require, implementations to support vector lengths that are not a power of two. To handle this, logic is added to check a requested vector length against a possibly sparse bitmap of available vector lengths at runtime, so that the best supported value can be chosen. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Cc: Alex Benn?e <redacted>
Can this be merged with patch 20? It seems to add the PR_ definitions which get actually used later when the prctl interface is added. -- Catalin