tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/sve_helpers.c

Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/sve_helpers.c

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Linux kernel
Corpus path
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/sve_helpers.c
Extension
.c
Size
1302 bytes
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57
Domain
Support Tooling And Documentation
Bucket
tools
Inferred role
Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source
Status
source implementation candidate

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Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2024 ARM Limited
 *
 * Common helper functions for SVE and SME functionality.
 */

#include <stdbool.h>
#include <kselftest.h>
#include <asm/sigcontext.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>

unsigned int vls[SVE_VQ_MAX];
unsigned int nvls;

int sve_fill_vls(bool use_sme, int min_vls)
{
	int vq, vl;
	int pr_set_vl = use_sme ? PR_SME_SET_VL : PR_SVE_SET_VL;
	int len_mask = use_sme ? PR_SME_VL_LEN_MASK : PR_SVE_VL_LEN_MASK;

	/*
	 * Enumerate up to SVE_VQ_MAX vector lengths
	 */
	for (vq = SVE_VQ_MAX; vq > 0; --vq) {
		vl = prctl(pr_set_vl, vq * 16);
		if (vl == -1)
			return KSFT_FAIL;

		vl &= len_mask;

		/*
		 * Unlike SVE, SME does not require the minimum vector length
		 * to be implemented, or the VLs to be consecutive, so any call
		 * to the prctl might return the single implemented VL, which
		 * might be larger than 16. So to avoid this loop never
		 * terminating,  bail out here when we find a higher VL than
		 * we asked for.
		 * See the ARM ARM, DDI 0487K.a, B1.4.2: I_QQRNR and I_NWYBP.
		 */
		if (vq < sve_vq_from_vl(vl))
			break;

		/* Skip missing VLs */
		vq = sve_vq_from_vl(vl);

		vls[nvls++] = vl;
	}

	if (nvls < min_vls) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Only %d VL supported\n", nvls);
		return KSFT_SKIP;
	}

	return KSFT_PASS;
}

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