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The syscall ABI says that the SVE register state not shared with FPSIMD may not be preserved on syscall, and this is the only mechanism we have in the ABI to stop tracking the extra SVE state for a process. Currently we do this unconditionally by means of disabling SVE for the process on syscall, causing userspace to take a trap to EL1 if it uses SVE again. These extra traps result in a noticeable overhead for using SVE instead of FPSIMD in some workloads, especially for simple syscalls where we can return directly to userspace and would not otherwise need to update the floating point registers. Tests with fp-pidbench show an approximately 70% overhead on a range of implementations when SVE is in use - while this is an extreme and entirely artificial benchmark it is clear that there is some useful room for improvement here. Now that we have the ability to track the decision about what to save seprately to TIF_SVE we can improve things by leaving TIF_SVE enabled on syscall but only saving the FPSIMD registers if we are in a syscall. This means that if we need to restore the register state from memory (eg, after a context switch or kernel mode NEON) we will drop TIF_SVE and reenable traps for userspace but if we can just return to userspace then traps will remain disabled. Since our current implementation and hence ABI has the effect of zeroing all the SVE register state not shared with FPSIMD on syscall we replace the disabling of TIF_SVE with a flush of the non-shared register state, this means that there is still some overhead for syscalls when SVE is in use but it is very much reduced. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221115094640.112848-8-broonie@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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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
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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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.