Re: [PATCH v5 14/26] KVM: arm64/sve: Context switch the SVE registers

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 04:46:57PM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote:
> 
> 
> On 18/02/2019 19:52, Dave Martin wrote:
> > In order to give each vcpu its own view of the SVE registers, this
> > patch adds context storage via a new sve_state pointer in struct
> > vcpu_arch.  An additional member sve_max_vl is also added for each
> > vcpu, to determine the maximum vector length visible to the guest
> > and thus the value to be configured in ZCR_EL2.LEN while the is
> 
> "While the <guest> is active"?

Hmmm, yes.  Thanks for deciphering that.  Done.

> > active.  This also determines the layout and size of the storage in
> > sve_state, which is read and written by the same backend functions
> > that are used for context-switching the SVE state for host tasks.
> > 
> > On SVE-enabled vcpus, SVE access traps are now handled by switching
> > in the vcpu's SVE context and disabling the trap before returning
> > to the guest.  On other vcpus, the trap is not handled and an exit
> > back to the host occurs, where the handle_sve() fallback path
> > reflects an undefined instruction exception back to the guest,
> > consistently with the behaviour of non-SVE-capable hardware (as was
> > done unconditionally prior to this patch).
> > 
> > No SVE handling is added on non-VHE-only paths, since VHE is an
> > architectural and Kconfig prerequisite of SVE.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> 
> Otherwise:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>

Thanks
---Dave
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