powerpc: Provide for giveup_fpu/altivec to save state in alternate location

This provides a facility which is intended for use by KVM, where the
contents of the FP/VSX and VMX (Altivec) registers can be saved away
to somewhere other than the thread_struct when kernel code wants to
use floating point or VMX instructions.  This is done by providing a
pointer in the thread_struct to indicate where the state should be
saved to.  The giveup_fpu() and giveup_altivec() functions test these
pointers and save state to the indicated location if they are non-NULL.
Note that the MSR_FP/VEC bits in task->thread.regs->msr are still used
to indicate whether the CPU register state is live, even when an
alternate save location is being used.

This also provides load_fp_state() and load_vr_state() functions, which
load up FP/VSX and VMX state from memory into the CPU registers, and
corresponding store_fp_state() and store_vr_state() functions, which
store FP/VSX and VMX state into memory from the CPU registers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This commit is contained in:
Paul Mackerras
2013-09-10 20:21:10 +10:00
committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent de79f7b9f6
commit 18461960cb
6 changed files with 71 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -91,9 +91,11 @@ int main(void)
#endif
DEFINE(THREAD_FPEXC_MODE, offsetof(struct thread_struct, fpexc_mode));
DEFINE(THREAD_FPSTATE, offsetof(struct thread_struct, fp_state));
DEFINE(THREAD_FPSAVEAREA, offsetof(struct thread_struct, fp_save_area));
DEFINE(FPSTATE_FPSCR, offsetof(struct thread_fp_state, fpscr));
#ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
DEFINE(THREAD_VRSTATE, offsetof(struct thread_struct, vr_state));
DEFINE(THREAD_VRSAVEAREA, offsetof(struct thread_struct, vr_save_area));
DEFINE(THREAD_VRSAVE, offsetof(struct thread_struct, vrsave));
DEFINE(THREAD_USED_VR, offsetof(struct thread_struct, used_vr));
DEFINE(VRSTATE_VSCR, offsetof(struct thread_vr_state, vscr));