1. 27 3月, 2014 2 次提交
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      MIPS: Basic MSA context switching support · 1db1af84
      Paul Burton 提交于
      This patch adds support for context switching the MSA vector registers.
      These 128 bit vector registers are aliased with the FP registers - an
      FP register accesses the least significant bits of the vector register
      with which it is aliased (ie. the register with the same index). Due to
      both this & the requirement that the scalar FPU must be 64-bit (FR=1) if
      enabled at the same time as MSA the kernel will enable MSA & scalar FP
      at the same time for tasks which use MSA. If we restore the MSA vector
      context then we might as well enable the scalar FPU since the reason it
      was left disabled was to allow for lazy FP context restoring - but we
      just restored the FP context as it's a subset of the vector context. If
      we restore the FP context and have previously used MSA then we have to
      restore the whole vector context anyway (see comment in
      enable_restore_fp_context for details) so similarly we might as well
      enable MSA.
      
      Thus if a task does not use MSA then it will continue to behave as
      without this patch - the scalar FP context will be saved & restored as
      usual. But if a task executes an MSA instruction then it will save &
      restore the vector context forever more.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
      Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6431/Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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      MIPS: Add MSA register definitions & access · 7f65afb9
      Paul Burton 提交于
      This patch introduces definitions for the MSA control registers and
      functions which allow access to both the control & vector registers. If
      the toolchain being used to build the kernel includes support for MSA
      then this patch will make use of that support & use MSA instructions
      directly. However toolchain support for MSA is very new & far from a
      point where it can be reasonably expected that everyone building the
      kernel uses a toolchain with support. Thus fallbacks using .word
      assembler directives are also provided for now as a temporary measure.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
      Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6429/
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6607/Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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