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This patch utilizes Vector to perform copy_to_user/copy_from_user. If Vector is available and the size of copy is large enough for Vector to perform better than scalar, then direct the kernel to do Vector copies for userspace. Though the best programming practice for users is to reduce the copy, this provides a faster variant when copies are inevitable. The optimal size for using Vector, copy_to_user_thres, is only a heuristic for now. We can add DT parsing if people feel the need of customizing it. The exception fixup code of the __asm_vector_usercopy must fallback to the scalar one because accessing user pages might fault, and must be sleepable. Current kernel-mode Vector does not allow tasks to be preemptible, so we must disactivate Vector and perform a scalar fallback in such case. The original implementation of Vector operations comes from https://github.com/sifive/sifive-libc, which we agree to contribute to Linux kernel. Co-developed-by: Jerry Shih <jerry.shih@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Jerry Shih <jerry.shih@sifive.com> Co-developed-by: Nick Knight <nick.knight@sifive.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Knight <nick.knight@sifive.com> Suggested-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Chiu <andy.chiu@sifive.com> Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com> Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240115055929.4736-6-andy.chiu@sifive.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> |
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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 Restructured Text 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.