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When DSP extensions are present, some of the regular integer instructions such as DIV, MACD etc are executed in the DSP unit with semantics alterable by flags in DSP_CTRL aux register. This register is writable by userspace and thus can potentially affect corresponding instructions in kernel code, intentionally or otherwise. So safegaurd kernel by effectively disabling DSP_CTRL upon bootup and every entry to kernel. Do note that for this config we simply zero out the DSP_CTRL reg assuming userspace doesn't really care about DSP. The next patch caters to the DSP aware userspace where this reg is saved/restored upon kernel entry/exit. Reviewed-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.