Thread (100 messages) 100 messages, 8 authors, 2017-10-09
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[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
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.

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Catalin
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