xref: /linux/arch/powerpc/lib/vmx-helper.c (revision ab520be8cd5d56867fc95cfbc34b90880faf1f9d)
1 /*
2  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
3  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
4  * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
5  * (at your option) any later version.
6  *
7  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
8  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
9  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
10  * GNU General Public License for more details.
11  *
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13  * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
14  * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
15  *
16  * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2011
17  *
18  * Authors: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
19  *          Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
20  */
21 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
22 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
23 #include <asm/switch_to.h>
24 #include <asm/asm-prototypes.h>
25 
26 int enter_vmx_usercopy(void)
27 {
28 	if (in_interrupt())
29 		return 0;
30 
31 	preempt_disable();
32 	/*
33 	 * We need to disable page faults as they can call schedule and
34 	 * thus make us lose the VMX context. So on page faults, we just
35 	 * fail which will cause a fallback to the normal non-vmx copy.
36 	 */
37 	pagefault_disable();
38 
39 	enable_kernel_altivec();
40 
41 	return 1;
42 }
43 
44 /*
45  * This function must return 0 because we tail call optimise when calling
46  * from __copy_tofrom_user_power7 which returns 0 on success.
47  */
48 int exit_vmx_usercopy(void)
49 {
50 	disable_kernel_altivec();
51 	pagefault_enable();
52 	preempt_enable();
53 	return 0;
54 }
55 
56 int enter_vmx_copy(void)
57 {
58 	if (in_interrupt())
59 		return 0;
60 
61 	preempt_disable();
62 
63 	enable_kernel_altivec();
64 
65 	return 1;
66 }
67 
68 /*
69  * All calls to this function will be optimised into tail calls. We are
70  * passed a pointer to the destination which we return as required by a
71  * memcpy implementation.
72  */
73 void *exit_vmx_copy(void *dest)
74 {
75 	disable_kernel_altivec();
76 	preempt_enable();
77 	return dest;
78 }
79