[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: fix misleading comments in save/restore
Alex Bennée
alex.bennee at linaro.org
Thu Jun 4 06:28:37 PDT 2015
The elr_el2 and spsr_el2 registers in fact contain the processor state
before entry into EL2. In the case of guest state it could be in either
el0 or el1.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>
---
v2
- s/hypervisor code/EL2/
- comment: pc/pstate before entering/on return from el2
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
index 5befd01..519805f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
stp x29, lr, [x3, #80]
mrs x19, sp_el0
- mrs x20, elr_el2 // EL1 PC
- mrs x21, spsr_el2 // EL1 pstate
+ mrs x20, elr_el2 // pc before entering el2
+ mrs x21, spsr_el2 // pstate before entering el2
stp x19, x20, [x3, #96]
str x21, [x3, #112]
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@
ldr x21, [x3, #16]
msr sp_el0, x19
- msr elr_el2, x20 // EL1 PC
- msr spsr_el2, x21 // EL1 pstate
+ msr elr_el2, x20 // pc on return from el2
+ msr spsr_el2, x21 // pstate on return from el2
add x3, x2, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(19)
ldp x19, x20, [x3]
--
2.4.2
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