Re: [PATCH v2 13/18] arm64: entry: Hook up entry trampoline to exception vectors
From: Mark Rutland
Date: Fri Dec 01 2017 - 08:53:12 EST
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 04:39:41PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> .macro kernel_ventry, el, label, regsize = 64
> .align 7
> +#ifdef CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
> + .if \el == 0
> + .if \regsize == 64
> + mrs x30, tpidrro_el0
> + msr tpidrro_el0, xzr
> + .else
> + mov x30, xzr
I guess that's just to prevent acccidental leaks if we dump registers
somewhere, since we used x30 as a scratch register?
> + .macro tramp_alias, dst, sym
> + mov_q \dst, TRAMP_VALIAS
> + add \dst, \dst, #(\sym - .entry.tramp.text)
> + .endm
I didn't realise you could refer to sections like this; neat!
Otherwise, looks fine to me.
Thanks,
Mark.