arm64/fp: Add comments documenting the usage of state restore functions

Add comments to help people figure out when fpsimd_bind_state_to_cpu() and
fpsimd_update_current_state() are used.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211207163250.1373542-1-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index fa244c4..aad5905 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -1213,7 +1213,8 @@ void fpsimd_bind_state_to_cpu(struct user_fpsimd_state *st, void *sve_state,
 /*
  * Load the userland FPSIMD state of 'current' from memory, but only if the
  * FPSIMD state already held in the registers is /not/ the most recent FPSIMD
- * state of 'current'
+ * state of 'current'.  This is called when we are preparing to return to
+ * userspace to ensure that userspace sees a good register state.
  */
 void fpsimd_restore_current_state(void)
 {
@@ -1244,7 +1245,9 @@ void fpsimd_restore_current_state(void)
 /*
  * Load an updated userland FPSIMD state for 'current' from memory and set the
  * flag that indicates that the FPSIMD register contents are the most recent
- * FPSIMD state of 'current'
+ * FPSIMD state of 'current'. This is used by the signal code to restore the
+ * register state when returning from a signal handler in FPSIMD only cases,
+ * any SVE context will be discarded.
  */
 void fpsimd_update_current_state(struct user_fpsimd_state const *state)
 {