[PATCH v8 1/4] arm64: Store struct task_info in sp_el0

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Dec 4 05:27:43 PST 2015


On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:02:25AM +0000, James Morse wrote:
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
[...]
> @@ -599,6 +606,8 @@ ENTRY(cpu_switch_to)
>  	ldp	x29, x9, [x8], #16
>  	ldr	lr, [x8]
>  	mov	sp, x9
> +	and	x9, x9, #~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)
> +	msr	sp_el0, x9
>  	ret
>  ENDPROC(cpu_switch_to)

At the beginning of the cpu_switch_to function, could we do
"mrs x9, sp_el0" instead to avoid the "and ... ~(THREAD_SIZE-1)"?

Otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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