summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSamuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>2024-03-29 00:18:16 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-19 14:36:17 -0700
commit6cbd1d6d36c5d8312de99d1dfa3bec40ac840ce0 (patch)
tree276fa094d3c5a6f9aa3542aad66bf1eeb02498e0 /Documentation/core-api/index.rst
parentb11b998e983119e27b33210a0128b27df6ae5f78 (diff)
arch: add ARCH_HAS_KERNEL_FPU_SUPPORT
Several architectures provide an API to enable the FPU and run floating-point SIMD code in kernel space. However, the function names, header locations, and semantics are inconsistent across architectures, and FPU support may be gated behind other Kconfig options. provide a standard way for architectures to declare that kernel space FPU support is available. Architectures selecting this option must implement what is currently the most common API (kernel_fpu_begin() and kernel_fpu_end(), plus a new function kernel_fpu_available()) and provide the appropriate CFLAGS for compiling floating-point C code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329072441.591471-2-samuel.holland@sifive.com Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api/index.rst')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/index.rst1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
index 7a3a08d81f11..974beccd671f 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Library functionality that is used throughout the kernel.
errseq
wrappers/atomic_t
wrappers/atomic_bitops
+ floating-point
Low level entry and exit
========================