On 2020-04-30 16:10:16 [-0600], Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
Sometimes it's not okay to use SIMD registers, the conditions for which have changed subtly from kernel release to kernel release. Usually the pattern is to check for may_use_simd() and then fallback to using something slower in the unlikely case SIMD registers aren't available. So, this patch fixes up i915's accelerated memcpy routines to fallback to boring memcpy if may_use_simd() is false.
That would indicate that these functions are used from IRQ/softirq which break otherwise if the kernel is also using the registers. The crypto code uses it for that purpose.
So Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de
May I ask how large the memcpy can be? I'm asking in case it is large and an explicit rescheduling point might be needed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com
Sebastian