Skip to content

Commit b4725d3

Browse files
brooniectmarinas
authored andcommitted
arm64/sve: Remove bitrotted comment about syscall behaviour
When we documented that we always clear state not shared with FPSIMD we didn't catch all of the places that mentioned that state might not be cleared, remove a lingering reference. Reported-by: Edmund Grimley-Evans <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
1 parent 54be6c6 commit b4725d3

File tree

1 file changed

+0
-5
lines changed

1 file changed

+0
-5
lines changed

Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst

Lines changed: 0 additions & 5 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -117,11 +117,6 @@ the SVE instruction set architecture.
117117
* The SVE registers are not used to pass arguments to or receive results from
118118
any syscall.
119119

120-
* In practice the affected registers/bits will be preserved or will be replaced
121-
with zeros on return from a syscall, but userspace should not make
122-
assumptions about this. The kernel behaviour may vary on a case-by-case
123-
basis.
124-
125120
* All other SVE state of a thread, including the currently configured vector
126121
length, the state of the PR_SVE_VL_INHERIT flag, and the deferred vector
127122
length (if any), is preserved across all syscalls, subject to the specific

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)