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Message-ID: <20191025100232.GC40270@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:02:32 +0100
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To: samitolvanen@...gle.com
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/17] arm64: kernel: avoid x18 as an arbitrary temp
register
Minor nit, but could we make the title a bit more specific (and more
uniform across the series)? e.g.
arm64: kvm: avoid x18 in __cpu_soft_restart
That makes things a bit nicer when trawling through git logs as the
scope of the patch is clearer.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 03:51:19PM -0700, samitolvanen@...gle.com wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
>
> The code in __cpu_soft_restart() uses x18 as an arbitrary temp register,
> which will shortly be disallowed. So use x8 instead.
>
> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9836877/
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Either way:
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S
> index 6ea337d464c4..32c7bf858dd9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu-reset.S
> @@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_soft_restart)
> mov x0, #HVC_SOFT_RESTART
> hvc #0 // no return
>
> -1: mov x18, x1 // entry
> +1: mov x8, x1 // entry
> mov x0, x2 // arg0
> mov x1, x3 // arg1
> mov x2, x4 // arg2
> - br x18
> + br x8
> ENDPROC(__cpu_soft_restart)
>
> .popsection
> --
> 2.24.0.rc0.303.g954a862665-goog
>
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