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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c index fa244c426f61..6fb361e8bed8 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c @@ -78,7 +78,11 @@ * indicate whether or not the userland FPSIMD state of the current task is * present in the registers. The flag is set unless the FPSIMD registers of this * CPU currently contain the most recent userland FPSIMD state of the current - * task. + * task. If the task is behaving as a VMM, then this is will be managed by + * KVM which will clear it to indicate that the vcpu FPSIMD state is currently + * loaded on the CPU, allowing the state to be saved if a FPSIMD-aware + * softirq kicks in. Upon vcpu_put(), KVM will save the vcpu FP state and + * flag the register state as invalid. * * In order to allow softirq handlers to use FPSIMD, kernel_neon_begin() may * save the task's FPSIMD context back to task_struct from softirq context. |