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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/sve.txt | 16 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt index 68d9b74fd751..2735462d5958 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt @@ -58,13 +58,14 @@ stable kernels. | ARM | Cortex-A72 | #853709 | N/A | | ARM | Cortex-A73 | #858921 | ARM64_ERRATUM_858921 | | ARM | Cortex-A55 | #1024718 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1024718 | -| ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1188873 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 | +| ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1188873,1418040| ARM64_ERRATUM_1418040 | | ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1165522 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1165522 | | ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1286807 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1286807 | -| ARM | Neoverse-N1 | #1188873 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 | -| ARM | MMU-500 | #841119,#826419 | N/A | +| ARM | Cortex-A76 | #1463225 | ARM64_ERRATUM_1463225 | +| ARM | Neoverse-N1 | #1188873,1418040| ARM64_ERRATUM_1418040 | +| ARM | MMU-500 | #841119,826419 | N/A | | | | | | -| Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #22375, #24313 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375 | +| Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #22375,24313 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375 | | Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #23144 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23144 | | Cavium | ThunderX GICv3 | #23154 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23154 | | Cavium | ThunderX Core | #27456 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456 | diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt index 9940e924a47e..5689fc9a976a 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt @@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ model features for SVE is included in Appendix A. is to connect to a target process first and then attempt a ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_ARM_SVE, &iov). +* Whenever SVE scalable register values (Zn, Pn, FFR) are exchanged in memory + between userspace and the kernel, the register value is encoded in memory in + an endianness-invariant layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] encoded at + byte offset i from the start of the memory representation. This affects for + example the signal frame (struct sve_context) and ptrace interface + (struct user_sve_header) and associated data. + + Beware that on big-endian systems this results in a different byte order than + for the FPSIMD V-registers, which are stored as single host-endian 128-bit + values, with bits [(127 - 8 * i) : (120 - 8 * i)] of the register encoded at + byte offset i. (struct fpsimd_context, struct user_fpsimd_state). + 2. Vector length terminology ----------------------------- @@ -124,6 +136,10 @@ the SVE instruction set architecture. size and layout. Macros SVE_SIG_* are defined [1] to facilitate access to the members. +* Each scalable register (Zn, Pn, FFR) is stored in an endianness-invariant + layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] stored at byte offset i from the + start of the register's representation in memory. + * If the SVE context is too big to fit in sigcontext.__reserved[], then extra space is allocated on the stack, an extra_context record is written in __reserved[] referencing this space. sve_context is then written in the |
