Re: [PATCH v4 05/10] kvm: arm64: Remove hyp_adr/ldr_this_cpu

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 13:34:16 EST


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:49:05PM +0100, David Brazdil wrote:
> The hyp_adr/ldr_this_cpu helpers were introduced for use in hyp code
> because they always needed to use TPIDR_EL2 for base, while
> adr/ldr_this_cpu from kernel proper would select between TPIDR_EL2 and
> _EL1 based on VHE/nVHE.
>
> Simplify this now that the hyp mode case can be handled using the
> __KVM_VHE/NVHE_HYPERVISOR__ macros.
>
> Acked-by: Andrew Scull <ascull@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Brazdil <dbrazdil@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++----------
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 14 +-------------
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> index 54d181177656..86e0ef79a799 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> @@ -218,6 +218,23 @@ lr .req x30 // link register
> str \src, [\tmp, :lo12:\sym]
> .endm
>
> + /*
> + * @dst: destination register (32 or 64 bit wide)

nit: this comment is wrong as I don't think mrs can take a W register
as the destination argument. I'm assuming Marc can fix that up.

Will