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arm64: Floating point and SIMD
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:49:32 +0000 (11:49 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 15:14:42 +0000 (16:14 +0100)
commit3a32976572e60f4f53a62b82582452fca42a12fb
tree888708ba0a9f259055915b93527ae25914df9956
parenta54788bcd5744450c38fa1b14281c5e413642081
arm64: Floating point and SIMD

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@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arm64/kernel/entry-fpsimd.S [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c [new file with mode: 0644]