arm64: neon: Remove support for nested or hardirq kernel-mode NEON

Support for kernel-mode NEON to be nested and/or used in hardirq
context adds significant complexity, and the benefits may be
marginal.  In practice, kernel-mode NEON is not used in hardirq
context, and is rarely used in softirq context (by certain mac80211
drivers).

This patch implements an arm64 may_use_simd() function to allow
clients to check whether kernel-mode NEON is usable in the current
context, and simplifies kernel_neon_{begin,end}() to handle only
saving of the task FPSIMD state (if any).  Without nesting, there
is no other state to save.

The partial fpsimd save/restore functions become redundant as a
result of these changes, so they are removed too.

The save/restore model is changed to operate directly on
task_struct without additional percpu storage.  This simplifies the
code and saves a bit of memory, but means that softirqs must now be
disabled when manipulating the task fpsimd state from task context:
correspondingly, preempt_{en,dis}sable() calls are upgraded to
local_bh_{en,dis}able() as appropriate.  fpsimd_thread_switch()
already runs with hardirqs disabled and so is already protected
from softirqs.

These changes should make it easier to support kernel-mode NEON in
the presence of the Scalable Vector extension in the future.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
index 5155f21e15e3..410c48163c6a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
@@ -41,16 +41,6 @@ struct fpsimd_state {
 	unsigned int cpu;
 };
 
-/*
- * Struct for stacking the bottom 'n' FP/SIMD registers.
- */
-struct fpsimd_partial_state {
-	u32		fpsr;
-	u32		fpcr;
-	u32		num_regs;
-	__uint128_t	vregs[32];
-};
-
 
 #if defined(__KERNEL__) && defined(CONFIG_COMPAT)
 /* Masks for extracting the FPSR and FPCR from the FPSCR */
@@ -77,10 +67,6 @@ extern void fpsimd_update_current_state(struct fpsimd_state *state);
 
 extern void fpsimd_flush_task_state(struct task_struct *target);
 
-extern void fpsimd_save_partial_state(struct fpsimd_partial_state *state,
-				      u32 num_regs);
-extern void fpsimd_load_partial_state(struct fpsimd_partial_state *state);
-
 /* For use by EFI runtime services calls only */
 extern void __efi_fpsimd_begin(void);
 extern void __efi_fpsimd_end(void);