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SVE provides an instruction RDVL which reports the currently configured vector length. In order to validate that our vector length configuration interfaces are working correctly without having to build the C code for our test programs with SVE enabled provide a trivial assembly library with a C callable function that executes RDVL. Since these interfaces also control behaviour on exec*() provide a trivial wrapper program which reports the currently configured vector length on stdout, tests can use this to verify that behaviour on exec*() is as expected. In preparation for providing similar helper functionality for SME, the Scalable Matrix Extension, which allows separately configured vector lengths to be read back both the assembler function and wrapper binary have SVE included in their name. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210803140450.46624-2-broonie@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.