User will use its Vector registers only after the kernel really returns
to the userspace. So we can delay restoring Vector registers as long as
we are still running in kernel mode. So, add a thread flag to indicates
the need of restoring Vector and do the restore at the last
arch-specific exit-to-user hook. This save the context restoring cost
when we switch over multiple processes that run V in kernel mode. For
example, if the kernel performs a context swicth from A->B->C, and
returns to C's userspace, then there is no need to restore B's
V-register.
Besides, this also prevents us from repeatedly restoring V context when
executing kernel-mode Vector multiple times.
The cost of this is that we must disable preemption and mark vector as
busy during vstate_{save,restore}. Because then the V context will not
get restored back immediately when a trap-causing context switch happens
in the middle of vstate_{save,restore}.
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240115055929.4736-5-andy.chiu@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
The goal of this patch is to provide full support of Vector in kernel
softirq context. So that some of the crypto alogrithms won't need scalar
fallbacks.
By disabling bottom halves in active kernel-mode Vector, softirq will
not be able to nest on top of any kernel-mode Vector. So, softirq
context is able to use Vector whenever it runs.
After this patch, Vector context cannot start with irqs disabled.
Otherwise local_bh_enable() may run in a wrong context.
Disabling bh is not enough for RT-kernel to prevent preeemption. So
we must disable preemption, which also implies disabling bh on RT.
Related-to: commit 696207d425 ("arm64/sve: Make kernel FPU protection RT friendly")
Related-to: commit 66c3ec5a71 ("arm64: neon: Forbid when irqs are disabled")
Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240115055929.4736-3-andy.chiu@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
