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Commit 82e0191a authored by Suzuki K Poulose's avatar Suzuki K Poulose Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: Support systems without FP/ASIMD



The arm64 kernel assumes that FP/ASIMD units are always present
and accesses the FP/ASIMD specific registers unconditionally. This
could cause problems when they are absent. This patch adds the
support for kernel handling systems without FP/ASIMD by skipping the
register access within the kernel. For kvm, we trap the accesses
to FP/ASIMD and inject an undefined instruction exception to the VM.

The callers of the exported kernel_neon_begin_partial() should
make sure that the FP/ASIMD is supported.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: add comment on the ARM64_HAS_NO_FPSIMD conflict and the new location]
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent a4023f68
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