[PATCH v9 1/4] arm64: mte: rename gcr_user_excl to mte_ctrl

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Tue Jul 13 10:50:38 PDT 2021


On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 12:41:07PM -0700, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> We are going to use this field to store more data. To prepare for
> that, rename it and change the users to rely on the bit position of
> gcr_user_excl in mte_ctrl.
> 
> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ie1fd18e480100655f5d22137f5b22f4f3a9f9e2e
> Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h |  5 ++++-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c    |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S          |  4 ++--
>  arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c            | 14 ++++++++------
>  4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Makes sense to me:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

Will



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