On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 04:59:03PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
When in streaming mode we have the same set of SVE registers as we do in regular SVE mode with the exception of FFR and the use of the SME vector length. Provide signal handling for these registers by taking one of the reserved words in the SVE signal context as a flags field and defining a flag which is set for streaming mode. When the flag is set the vector length is set to the streaming mode vector length and we save and restore streaming mode data. We support entering or leaving streaming mode based on the value of the flag but do not support changing the vector length, this is not currently supported SVE signal handling.
We could instead allocate a separate record in the signal frame for the streaming mode SVE context but this inflates the size of the maximal signal frame required and adds complication when validating signal frames from userspace, especially given the current structure of the code.
Any implementation of support for streaming mode vectors in signals will have some potential for causing issues for applications that attempt to handle SVE vectors in signals, use streaming mode but do not understand streaming mode in their signal handling code, it is hard to identify a case that is clearly better than any other - they all have cases where they could cause unexpected register corruption or faults.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com