On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 04:58:51PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > As with SVE rather than impose ambitious toolchain requirements for SME > we manually encode the few instructions which we require in order to > perform the work the kernel needs to do. The instructions used to save > and restore context are provided as assembler macros while those for > entering and leaving streaming mode are done in asm volatile blocks > since they are expected to be used from C. > > We could do the SMSTART and SMSTOP operations with read/modify/write > cycles on SVCR but using the aliases provided for individual field > accesses should be slightly faster. These instructions are aliases for > MSR but since our minimum toolchain requirements are old enough to mean > that we can't use the sX_X_cX_cX_X form and they always use xzr rather > than taking a value like write_sysreg_s() wants we just use .inst. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
