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As with SVE rather than impose ambitious toolchain requirements for SME we manually encode the few instructions which we require in order to perform the work the kernel needs to do. The instructions used to save and restore context are provided as assembler macros while those for entering and leaving streaming mode are done in asm volatile blocks since they are expected to be used from C. We could do the SMSTART and SMSTOP operations with read/modify/write cycles on SVCR but using the aliases provided for individual field accesses should be slightly faster. These instructions are aliases for MSR but since our minimum toolchain requirements are old enough to mean that we can't use the sX_X_cX_cX_X form and they always use xzr rather than taking a value like write_sysreg_s() wants we just use .inst. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419112247.711548-7-broonie@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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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.