arm64: neon: Remove support for nested or hardirq kernel-mode NEON
Support for kernel-mode NEON to be nested and/or used in hardirq context adds significant complexity, and the benefits may be marginal. In practice, kernel-mode NEON is not used in hardirq context, and is rarely used in softirq context (by certain mac80211 drivers). This patch implements an arm64 may_use_simd() function to allow clients to check whether kernel-mode NEON is usable in the current context, and simplifies kernel_neon_{begin,end}() to handle only saving of the task FPSIMD state (if any). Without nesting, there is no other state to save. The partial fpsimd save/restore functions become redundant as a result of these changes, so they are removed too. The save/restore model is changed to operate directly on task_struct without additional percpu storage. This simplifies the code and saves a bit of memory, but means that softirqs must now be disabled when manipulating the task fpsimd state from task context: correspondingly, preempt_{en,dis}sable() calls are upgraded to local_bh_{en,dis}able() as appropriate. fpsimd_thread_switch() already runs with hardirqs disabled and so is already protected from softirqs. These changes should make it easier to support kernel-mode NEON in the presence of the Scalable Vector extension in the future. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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