Commit 31aa126d authored by Marc Zyngier's avatar Marc Zyngier

arm64/fpsimd: Document the use of TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE by KVM

The bit of documentation that talks about TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE
does not mention the ungodly tricks that KVM plays with this flag.

Try and document this for the posterity.
Reviewed-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
parent bee14bca
......@@ -78,7 +78,11 @@
* indicate whether or not the userland FPSIMD state of the current task is
* present in the registers. The flag is set unless the FPSIMD registers of this
* CPU currently contain the most recent userland FPSIMD state of the current
* task.
* task. If the task is behaving as a VMM, then this is will be managed by
* KVM which will clear it to indicate that the vcpu FPSIMD state is currently
* loaded on the CPU, allowing the state to be saved if a FPSIMD-aware
* softirq kicks in. Upon vcpu_put(), KVM will save the vcpu FP state and
* flag the register state as invalid.
*
* In order to allow softirq handlers to use FPSIMD, kernel_neon_begin() may
* save the task's FPSIMD context back to task_struct from softirq context.
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