arm64/fpsimd: Clarify the purpose of using last in fpsimd_save()
When saving the floating point context in fpsimd_save() we always reference the state using last-> rather than using current->. Looking at the FP code in isolation the reason for this is not entirely obvious, it's done because when KVM is running it will bind the guest context and rely on the host writing out the guest state on context switch away from the guest. There's a slight trick here in that KVM still uses TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE and TIF_SVE to communicate what needs to be saved, it maintains those flags and restores them when it is done running the guest so that the normal restore paths function when we return back to userspace. Add a comment to explain this to help future readers work out what's going on a bit faster. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124161115.115200-1-broonie@kernel.org
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