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authorFrédéric Desbiens <[email protected]>2026-08-13 17:07:36 -0400
committerGitHub <[email protected]>2026-08-13 17:07:36 -0400
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Verified lazy VFP context switching on S32Z280 silicon (#609)
The FVP proved the lazy save and restore path at AR1/M5, but the board had never run it. Doing so needed one thing the model did not: the FPU has to be turned on. entry.S opens CPACR for CP10/CP11 and sets FPEXC.EN at EL1, guarded by __ARM_FP. EL2 already cleared HCPTR.TCP10/TCP11, but both of the EL1 gates read 0 out of reset, so a floating-point instruction raised an Undefined Instruction exception before this. tx_thread_vfp_enable() does not help: it sets the per-thread software flag that makes the context switch save and restore the registers, and never touches the hardware. Enabling it is the BSP's job. The __ARM_FP guard is what keeps a soft-float build assemblable, since "vmsr fpexc" is not a valid instruction for that target at all. demo_vfp_s32z280.c is the FVP's demo_m5.c test design over the LINFlexD console. The design is kept deliberately, because the two halves of the VFP context path need separate provocation: "fp check" holds eight live doubles across tx_thread_sleep, eight being enough to force the callee-saved D8-D15 bank that a solicited switch must preserve, while "fp busy" sits at the lowest priority and never sleeps, so the tick interrupts it mid-computation and exercises the interrupt half, D0-D15 plus FPSCR. Only these two threads opt in, so the test also shows that opting in is what does the work. s32z280_vfp.elf is gated on TX_R52_ENABLE_VFP, as demo_m5.elf is in the FVP example, since the image is meaningless unless the library was built with a floating-point ABI. Also made this example's -Wl,--no-warn-rwx-segments conditional on the compiler being GNU. #604 did that for the FVP example and this file still carried the literal, so ld.lld failed the link with "unknown argument". With that fixed the S32Z280 images build with Arm Toolchain for Embedded too. Verified on S32Z280 silicon: V2 D8-D15 bank preserved across switches PASS 50 solicited switches iterations = 0x000140A8 82,088 interrupted rounds corruptions = 0x00000000 V3 interrupted FP thread made progress PASS V4 no FP corruption across interrupts PASS filex_ptr = 0xF11EF11E V5 VFP flag did not alias filex_ptr PASS PASS lazy VFP context switch verified on silicon No regression: the soft-float build is warning-free and its image contains no vmsr at all, confirming the guard elides the block, and the existing demo still reports 100 ticks with 20 preemptions on the board. Both S32Z280 images also build with Arm Toolchain for Embedded 22.1.0, the hard-float VFP image included. No FVP file is touched. Assisted-by: Claude Code (Opus 5) <[email protected]>
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