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diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt index 7169a0ec41d8..5689fc9a976a 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt @@ -34,11 +34,40 @@ model features for SVE is included in Appendix A. following sections: software that needs to verify that those interfaces are present must check for HWCAP_SVE instead. +* On hardware that supports the SVE2 extensions, HWCAP2_SVE2 will also + be reported in the AT_HWCAP2 aux vector entry. In addition to this, + optional extensions to SVE2 may be reported by the presence of: + + HWCAP2_SVE2 + HWCAP2_SVEAES + HWCAP2_SVEPMULL + HWCAP2_SVEBITPERM + HWCAP2_SVESHA3 + HWCAP2_SVESM4 + + This list may be extended over time as the SVE architecture evolves. + + These extensions are also reported via the CPU ID register ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1, + which userspace can read using an MRS instruction. See elf_hwcaps.txt and + cpu-feature-registers.txt for details. + * Debuggers should restrict themselves to interacting with the target via the NT_ARM_SVE regset. The recommended way of detecting support for this regset is to connect to a target process first and then attempt a ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_ARM_SVE, &iov). +* Whenever SVE scalable register values (Zn, Pn, FFR) are exchanged in memory + between userspace and the kernel, the register value is encoded in memory in + an endianness-invariant layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] encoded at + byte offset i from the start of the memory representation. This affects for + example the signal frame (struct sve_context) and ptrace interface + (struct user_sve_header) and associated data. + + Beware that on big-endian systems this results in a different byte order than + for the FPSIMD V-registers, which are stored as single host-endian 128-bit + values, with bits [(127 - 8 * i) : (120 - 8 * i)] of the register encoded at + byte offset i. (struct fpsimd_context, struct user_fpsimd_state). + 2. Vector length terminology ----------------------------- @@ -107,6 +136,10 @@ the SVE instruction set architecture. size and layout. Macros SVE_SIG_* are defined [1] to facilitate access to the members. +* Each scalable register (Zn, Pn, FFR) is stored in an endianness-invariant + layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] stored at byte offset i from the + start of the register's representation in memory. + * If the SVE context is too big to fit in sigcontext.__reserved[], then extra space is allocated on the stack, an extra_context record is written in __reserved[] referencing this space. sve_context is then written in the |