Instead of saving/restoring FPU content on every exception and task
switch, this replaces FPU sharing support with a "lazy" (on-demand)
context switching algorithm similar to the one used on ARM64.
Every thread starts with FPU access disabled. On the first access the
FPU trap is invoked to:
- flush the FPU content to the previous thread's memory storage;
- restore the current thread's FPU content from memory.
When a thread loads its data in the FPU, it becomes the FPU owner.
FPU content is preserved across task switching, however FPU access is
either allowed if the new thread is the FPU owner, or denied otherwise.
A thread may claim FPU ownership only through the FPU trap. This way,
threads that don't use the FPU won't force an FPU context switch.
If only one running thread uses the FPU, there will be no FPU context
switching to do at all.
It is possible to do FP accesses in ISRs and syscalls. This is not the
norm though, so the same principle is applied here, although exception
contexts may not own the FPU. When they access the FPU, the FPU content
is flushed and the exception context is granted FPU access for the
duration of the exception. Nested IRQs are disallowed in that case to
dispense with the need to save and restore exception's FPU context data.
This is the core implementation only to ease reviewing. It is not yet
hooked into the build.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
Nicolas Pitre