ARM: add support for kernel mode NEON
In order to safely support the use of NEON instructions in kernel mode, some precautions need to be taken: - the userland context that may be present in the registers (even if the NEON/VFP is currently disabled) must be stored under the correct task (which may not be 'current' in the UP case), - to avoid having to keep track of additional vfpstates for the kernel side, disallow the use of NEON in interrupt context and run with preemption disabled, - after use, re-enable preemption and re-enable the lazy restore machinery by disabling the NEON/VFP unit. This patch adds the functions kernel_neon_begin() and kernel_neon_end() which take care of the above. It also adds the Kconfig symbol KERNEL_MODE_NEON to enable it. Change-Id: I286f9d414e87568f094b7782762faea46c6d4831 Signed-off-by:Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by:
Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Chris Fries <cfries@motorola.com> Git-commit: 7c8865cc8b5afabec1952a172dbd79350e1844c0 Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/ Signed-off-by:
Samir Mehta <samirn@codeaurora.org>
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