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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>
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:36:45 +0000 (16:36 +0100)
commit70bfb97d50422d050f67d1ae587342181edfcc19
tree8448aba521641dc238a66d702fbe55afc2b53a3e
parent4b206ff6d57d6a41ccdece439ca7f049d507c652
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]