linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.19 150/158] arm64/sme: Dont flush SVE register state when handling SME traps

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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.19 150/158] arm64/sme: Dont flush SVE register state when handling SME traps

From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>

commit 714f3cbd70a4db9f9b7fe5b8a032896ed33fb824 upstream.

Currently as part of handling a SME access trap we flush the SVE register
state. This is not needed and would corrupt register state if the task has
access to the SVE registers already. For non-streaming mode accesses the
required flushing will be done in the SVE access trap. For streaming
mode SVE register accesses the architecture guarantees that the register
state will be flushed when streaming mode is entered or exited so there is
no need for us to do so. Simply remove the register initialisation.

Fixes: 8bd7f91c03d8 ("arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME")
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220817182324.638214-5-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c |   11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -1463,17 +1463,6 @@ void do_sme_acc(unsigned long esr, struc
 		fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu();
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * If SVE was not already active initialise the SVE registers,
-	 * any non-shared state between the streaming and regular SVE
-	 * registers is architecturally guaranteed to be zeroed when
-	 * we enter streaming mode.  We do not need to initialize ZA
-	 * since ZA must be disabled at this point and enabling ZA is
-	 * architecturally defined to zero ZA.
-	 */
-	if (system_supports_sve() && !test_thread_flag(TIF_SVE))
-		sve_init_regs();
-
 	put_cpu_fpsimd_context();
 }