From 73c132c15da504789b924871e2491479a18e4f6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 11:41:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: add support for kernel mode NEON In order to safely support the use of NEON instructions in kernel mode, some precautions need to be taken: - the userland context that may be present in the registers (even if the NEON/VFP is currently disabled) must be stored under the correct task (which may not be 'current' in the UP case), - to avoid having to keep track of additional vfpstates for the kernel side, disallow the use of NEON in interrupt context and run with preemption disabled, - after use, re-enable preemption and re-enable the lazy restore machinery by disabling the NEON/VFP unit. This patch adds the functions kernel_neon_begin() and kernel_neon_end() which take care of the above. It also adds the Kconfig symbol KERNEL_MODE_NEON to enable it. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre --- Reading git-format-patch failed