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authorMark Brown <[email protected]>2024-01-24 18:12:37 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <[email protected]>2024-02-21 18:02:46 +0000
commit3fd97cf3234c5ffbd420319d1d510e4940183843 (patch)
tree8602c6036df4e1f59b308439edc4e9fcb0b34281
parentae35792764bcba1dc13d2de62480eae8b97c2c41 (diff)
arm64/fp: Clarify effect of setting an unsupported system VL
The documentation for system vector length configuration does not cover all cases where unsupported values are written, tighten it up. Reported-by: Edmund Grimley-Evans <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/arm64/sme.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst5
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/sme.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/sme.rst
index 3133d0e91b48..f4376c06f447 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/sme.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/sme.rst
@@ -379,9 +379,8 @@ The regset data starts with struct user_za_header, containing:
/proc/sys/abi/sme_default_vector_length
Writing the text representation of an integer to this file sets the system
- default vector length to the specified value, unless the value is greater
- than the maximum vector length supported by the system in which case the
- default vector length is set to that maximum.
+ default vector length to the specified value rounded to a supported value
+ using the same rules as for setting vector length via PR_SME_SET_VL.
The result can be determined by reopening the file and reading its
contents.
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
index b45a2da19bf1..8d8837fc39ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/sve.rst
@@ -423,9 +423,8 @@ The regset data starts with struct user_sve_header, containing:
/proc/sys/abi/sve_default_vector_length
Writing the text representation of an integer to this file sets the system
- default vector length to the specified value, unless the value is greater
- than the maximum vector length supported by the system in which case the
- default vector length is set to that maximum.
+ default vector length to the specified value rounded to a supported value
+ using the same rules as for setting vector length via PR_SVE_SET_VL.
The result can be determined by reopening the file and reading its
contents.