arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c

File Facts

System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c
Extension
.c
Size
2167 bytes
Lines
85
Domain
Architecture Layer
Bucket
arch/powerpc
Inferred role
Architecture Layer: exported/initcall integration point
Status
integration implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

CPU and platform-specific kernel glue: boot entry, traps, syscall entry, interrupts, page tables, context switch, and low-level barriers.

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/*
 *
 * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2011
 *
 * Authors: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 *          Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
 */
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
#include <asm/switch_to.h>

int enter_vmx_usercopy(void)
{
	if (in_interrupt())
		return 0;

	preempt_disable();
	/*
	 * We need to disable page faults as they can call schedule and
	 * thus make us lose the VMX context. So on page faults, we just
	 * fail which will cause a fallback to the normal non-vmx copy.
	 */
	pagefault_disable();

	enable_kernel_altivec();

	return 1;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(enter_vmx_usercopy);

/*
 * This function must return 0 because we tail call optimise when calling
 * from __copy_tofrom_user_power7 which returns 0 on success.
 */
int exit_vmx_usercopy(void)
{
	disable_kernel_altivec();
	pagefault_enable();
	preempt_enable_no_resched();
	/*
	 * Must never explicitly call schedule (including preempt_enable())
	 * while in a kuap-unlocked user copy, because the AMR register will
	 * not be saved and restored across context switch. However preempt
	 * kernels need to be preempted as soon as possible if need_resched is
	 * set and we are preemptible. The hack here is to schedule a
	 * decrementer to fire here and reschedule for us if necessary.
	 */
	if (need_irq_preemption() && need_resched())
		set_dec(1);
	return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(exit_vmx_usercopy);

/*
 * Can be called from kexec copy_page() path with MMU off. The kexec
 * code sets preempt_count to HARDIRQ_OFFSET so we return early here.
 * Since in_interrupt() is always inline, __no_sanitize_address on this
 * function is sufficient to avoid KASAN shadow memory accesses in real
 * mode.
 */
int __no_sanitize_address enter_vmx_ops(void)
{
	if (in_interrupt())
		return 0;

	preempt_disable();

	enable_kernel_altivec();

	return 1;
}

/*
 * All calls to this function will be optimised into tail calls. We are
 * passed a pointer to the destination which we return as required by a
 * memcpy implementation.
 */
void *exit_vmx_ops(void *dest)
{
	disable_kernel_altivec();
	preempt_enable();
	return dest;
}

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