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      arm64: smccc: Support SMCCC v1.3 SVE register saving hint · cfa7ff95
      Mark Brown authored
      
      
      SMCCC v1.2 requires that all SVE state be preserved over SMC calls which
      introduces substantial overhead in the common case where there is no SVE
      state in the registers. To avoid this SMCCC v1.3 introduces a flag which
      allows the caller to say that there is no state that needs to be preserved
      in the registers. Make use of this flag, setting it if the SMCCC version
      indicates support for it and the TIF_ flags indicate that there is no live
      SVE state in the registers, this avoids placing any constraints on when
      SMCCC calls can be done or triggering extra saving and reloading of SVE
      register state in the kernel.
      
      This would be straightforward enough except for the rather entertaining
      inline assembly we use to do SMCCC v1.1 calls to allow us to take advantage
      of the limited number of registers it clobbers. Deal with this by having a
      function which we call immediately before issuing the SMCCC call to make
      our checks and set the flag. Using alternatives the overhead if SVE is
      supported but not detected at runtime can be reduced to a single NOP.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210603184118.15090-1-broonie@kernel.org
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
      cfa7ff95
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