The in-memory representation of SVE and FPSIMD registers is
different: the FPSIMD V-registers are stored as single 128-bit
host-endian values, whereas SVE registers are stored in an
endianness-invariant byte order.
This means that the two representations differ when running on a
big-endian host. But we blindly copy data from one representation
to another when converting between the two, resulting in the
register contents being unintentionally byteswapped in certain
situations. Currently this can be triggered by the first SVE
instruction after a syscall, for example (though the potential
trigger points may vary in future).
So, fix the conversion functions fpsimd_to_sve(), sve_to_fpsimd()
and sve_sync_from_fpsimd_zeropad() to swab where appropriate.
There is no common swahl128() or swab128() that we could use here.
Maybe it would be worth making this generic, but for now add a
simple local hack.
Since the byte order differences are exposed in ABI, also clarify
the docuentation.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
index 9940e92..6c0bed3 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ model features for SVE is included in Appendix A.
is to connect to a target process first and then attempt a
ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_ARM_SVE, &iov).
+* Whenever SVE scalable register values (Zn, Pn, FFR) are exchanged in memory
+ between userspace and the kernel, the register value is encoded in memory in
+ an endianness-invariant layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] encoded at
+ byte offset i in from the start of the memory representation. This affects
+ for example the signal frame (struct sve_context) and ptrace interface
+ (struct user_sve_header) and associated data.
+
+ Beware that on big-endian systems this results in a different byte order than
+ for the FPSIMD V-registers, which are stored as single host-endian 128-bit
+ values, with bits [(127 - 8 * i) : (120 - 8 * i)] of the register encoded at
+ byte offset i. (struct fpsimd_context, struct user_fpsimd_state).
+
2. Vector length terminology
-----------------------------
@@ -124,6 +136,10 @@ the SVE instruction set architecture.
size and layout. Macros SVE_SIG_* are defined [1] to facilitate access to
the members.
+* Each scalable register (Zn, Pn, FFR) is stored in an endianness-invariant
+ layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] stored at byte offset i from the
+ start of the register's representation in memory.
+
* If the SVE context is too big to fit in sigcontext.__reserved[], then extra
space is allocated on the stack, an extra_context record is written in
__reserved[] referencing this space. sve_context is then written in the
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index 7b7ac0f..072ea1e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -260,6 +260,13 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_events {
KVM_REG_SIZE_U256 | \
((i) & (KVM_ARM64_SVE_MAX_SLICES - 1)))
+/*
+ * Register values for KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_ZREG(), KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_PREG() and
+ * KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_FFR() and represented in memory in an endianness-