[PATCH v2 22/31] arm64: Floating point and SIMD

2012-08-14 Thread Catalin Marinas
This patch adds support for FP/ASIMD register bank saving and restoring during context switch and FP exception handling to generate SIGFPE. There are 32 128-bit registers and the context switching is currently done non-lazily. Benchmarks on real hardware are required before implementing lazy FP sta

Re: [PATCH v2 22/31] arm64: Floating point and SIMD

2012-08-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 14 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > This patch adds support for FP/ASIMD register bank saving and restoring > during context switch and FP exception handling to generate SIGFPE. > There are 32 128-bit registers and the context switching is currently > done non-lazily. Benchmarks on