Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] arm64: Scalable Vector Extension core support

Dave Martin
2016-12-01T12:19:29Z

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:30:51AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:

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> Basically, all the *new* state is caller-save.
>
> The Neon/FPSIMD regs V8-V15 are callee-save, so in the SVE view
> Zn[bits 127:0] is callee-save for all n = 8..15.

Ramana is right -- the current procedure call standard (ARM IHI 0055B)
only requires the bottom _64_ bits of V8-V15 to be preserved (not all
128 bits as I stated).

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Cheers
---Dave