Re: [PATCH 12/27] arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes

2017-08-22 Thread Dave Martin
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 05:22:11PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Dave Martin writes: > > > It's desirable to be able to reset the vector length to some sane > > default for new processes, since the new binary and its libraries > > processes may or may not be SVE-aware. > >

Re: [PATCH 12/27] arm64/sve: Support vector length resetting for new processes

2017-08-22 Thread Alex Bennée
Dave Martin writes: > It's desirable to be able to reset the vector length to some sane > default for new processes, since the new binary and its libraries > processes may or may not be SVE-aware. > > This patch tracks the desired post-exec vector length (if any) in a > new