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arm64/sve: Minor clarification of ABI documentation
As suggested by Luis for the SME version of this explicitly say that the vector length should be extracted from the return value of a set vector length prctl() with a bitwise and rather than just any old and. Suggested-by: Luis Machado <Luis.Machado@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210184133.320748-4-broonie@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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vector length change (which would only normally be the case between a
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fork() or vfork() and the corresponding execve() in typical use).
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To extract the vector length from the result, and it with
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To extract the vector length from the result, bitwise and it with
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PR_SVE_VL_LEN_MASK.
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Return value: a nonnegative value on success, or a negative value on error:

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