linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 22/31] arm64: Floating point and SIMD

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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:35:30 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 22/31] arm64: Floating point and SIMD

On Tuesday 14 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> This patch adds support for FP/ASIMD register bank saving and restoring
> during context switch and FP exception handling to generate SIGFPE.
> There are 32 128-bit registers and the context switching is currently
> done non-lazily. Benchmarks on real hardware are required before
> implementing lazy FP state saving/restoring.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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