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Re: [PATCH v5 05/12] arm/sve: save/restore SVE context switch


  • To: Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Luca Fancellu <Luca.Fancellu@xxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH v5 05/12] arm/sve: save/restore SVE context switch

>> 
>> Hi Bertrand,
>> 
>> These are the changes I’m doing to this patch to address your comment, are 
>> you ok with them?
>> 
>> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/arm64/sve.c b/xen/arch/arm/arm64/sve.c
>> index f0eab18dc384..1fef466ba0aa 100644
>> --- a/xen/arch/arm/arm64/sve.c
>> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/arm64/sve.c
>> @@ -91,35 +91,35 @@ int sve_context_init(struct vcpu *v)
>>    if ( !ctx )
>>        return -ENOMEM;
>> 
>> -    v->arch.vfp.sve_context = ctx;
>> +    /* Point to the end of Z0-Z31 memory, just before FFR memory */
>> +    v->arch.vfp.sve_zreg_ctx_end = ctx +
>> +        (sve_zreg_ctx_size(sve_vl_bits) / sizeof(uint64_t));
>> 
>>    return 0;
>> }
>> 
>> void sve_context_free(struct vcpu *v)
>> {
>> -    XFREE(v->arch.vfp.sve_context);
>> +    unsigned int sve_vl_bits = sve_decode_vl(v->domain->arch.sve_vl);
>> +
>> +    /* Point back to the beginning of Z0-Z31 + FFR memory */
>> +    v->arch.vfp.sve_zreg_ctx_end = v->arch.vfp.sve_zreg_ctx_end -
>> +        (sve_zreg_ctx_size(sve_vl_bits) / sizeof(uint64_t));
> 
> Please use a local variable here instead.
> 
> For the rest all good yes, it makes the save/restore code simpler :-)
> 

I did at the beginning, but then I realised XFREE would set to NULL the local 
variable instead,
I could open code it and call xfree on the local variable and put 
v->arch.vfp.sve_zreg_ctx_end
to NULL afterwards, but Julien asked me to use XFREE.

What is your preference here?




 


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