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Commit 1bd3f936 authored by Dave Martin's avatar Dave Martin Committed by Will Deacon
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arm64/sve: Preserve SVE registers around kernel-mode NEON use



Kernel-mode NEON will corrupt the SVE vector registers, due to the
way they alias the FPSIMD vector registers in the hardware.

This patch ensures that any live SVE register content for the task
is saved by kernel_neon_begin().  The data will be restored in the
usual way on return to userspace.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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