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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
index 5f3c0cec5af9..3d448a0bb225 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ struct fpsimd_context {
__uint128_t vregs[32];
};
+/*
+ * Note: similarly to all other integer fields, each V-register is stored in an
+ * endianness-dependent format, with the byte at offset i from the start of the
+ * in-memory representation of the register value containing
+ *
+ * bits [(7 + 8 * i) : (8 * i)] of the register on little-endian hosts; or
+ * bits [(127 - 8 * i) : (120 - 8 * i)] on big-endian hosts.
+ */
+
/* ESR_EL1 context */
#define ESR_MAGIC 0x45535201
@@ -204,6 +213,11 @@ struct sve_context {
* FFR uint16_t[vq] first-fault status register
*
* Additional data might be appended in the future.
+ *
+ * Unlike vregs[] in fpsimd_context, each SVE scalable register (Z-, P- or FFR)
+ * is encoded in memory in an endianness-invariant format, with the byte at
+ * offset i from the start of the in-memory representation containing bits
+ * [(7 + 8 * i) : (8 * i)] of the register value.
*/
#define SVE_SIG_ZREG_SIZE(vq) __SVE_ZREG_SIZE(vq)