Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64/fp: Fix missing invalidation when working with in memory FP state

From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Nov 06 2024 - 10:53:38 EST


On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:23:49 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Mark Rutland identified a repeated pattern where we update the in memory
> floating point state for tasks but do not invalidate the tracking of the
> last CPU that the task's state was loaded on, meaning that we can
> incorrectly fail to load the state from memory due to the checking in
> fpsimd_thread_switch(). When we change the in-memory state we need to
> also invalidate the last CPU information so that the state is corretly
> identified as needing to be reloaded from memory.
>
> [...]

Applied SVE patch (with updated commit message) to arm64 (for-next/fixes),
thanks!

[1/2] arm64/sve: Flush foreign register state in sve_init_regs()
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/751ecf6afd65

Cheers,
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Will

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