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The EFI specification has some elaborate rules about which runtime services may be called while another runtime service call is already in progress. In Linux, however, for simplicity, all EFI runtime service invocations are serialized via the efi_runtime_lock semaphore. This implies that calls to the helper pair arch_efi_call_virt_setup() and arch_efi_call_virt_teardown() are serialized too, and are guaranteed not to nest. Furthermore, the arm64 arch code has its own spinlock to serialize use of the EFI runtime stack, of which only a single instance exists. This all means that the FP/SIMD and SVE state preserve/restore logic in __efi_fpsimd_begin() and __efi_fpsimd_end() are also serialized, and only a single instance of the associated per-CPU variables can ever be in use at the same time. There is therefore no need at all for per-CPU variables here, and they can all be replaced with singleton instances. This saves a non-trivial amount of memory on systems with many CPUs. To be more robust against potential future changes in the core EFI code that may invalidate the reasoning above, move the invocations of __efi_fpsimd_begin() and __efi_fpsimd_end() into the critical section covered by the efi_rt_lock spinlock. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318132421.3155799-2-ardb+git@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.