Recently the Linux Kernel has fixed a bunch of issues in SME support and
while testing that, I found two tests failing:
FAIL: test_za_register_dynamic_config_main_disabled
(TestZAThreadedDynamic.AArch64ZAThreadedTestCase)
FAIL: test_za_register_dynamic_config_main_enabled
(TestZAThreadedDynamic.AArch64ZAThreadedTestCase)
These tests write to vg during streaming mode from lldb and expect to
see that za has been resized to match it. Instead, it was unavailable.
lldb-server was sending the correct amount of data but lldb client was
expecting the old size.
Turns out that instead of a write to vg invalidating svg, it was
invalidating... something else. I'm still not sure how these tests ever
worked but with this one line fix, they pass again.
I did not see this issue with SVE or streaming SVE Z registers because
those always resize using the value of vg, and vg always has the value
we just wrote.
(remember that vg is the vector length of the **current** mode, not of
non-streaming mode, whereas svg is the vector length of streaming mode,
even if you are currently in non-streaming mode)
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