[PATCH 06/12] arm64: assembler: Remove endianness helper macros

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Tue Aug 11 07:01:25 PDT 2026


The CPU_LE()/CPU_BE() helper macros are only used by head.S. Since
big-endian support depends on BROKEN, remove the last users along with
the macro definitions. The unused regs_to_64() assembly macro, which
somewhat bizarrely behaves differently depend on the endianness, is also
removed.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h | 31 ------------------------------
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S           |  3 +--
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
index effae53e9739..45279e577ff5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
@@ -133,37 +133,6 @@ lr	.req	x30		// link register
 	b	\label
 	.endm
 
-/*
- * Select code when configured for BE.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
-#define CPU_BE(code...) code
-#else
-#define CPU_BE(code...)
-#endif
-
-/*
- * Select code when configured for LE.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
-#define CPU_LE(code...)
-#else
-#define CPU_LE(code...) code
-#endif
-
-/*
- * Define a macro that constructs a 64-bit value by concatenating two
- * 32-bit registers. Note that on big endian systems the order of the
- * registers is swapped.
- */
-#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
-	.macro	regs_to_64, rd, lbits, hbits
-#else
-	.macro	regs_to_64, rd, hbits, lbits
-#endif
-	orr	\rd, \lbits, \hbits, lsl #32
-	.endm
-
 /*
  * Pseudo-ops for PC-relative adr/ldr/str <reg>, <symbol> where
  * <symbol> is within the range +/- 4 GB of the PC.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 87a822e5c4ca..8951ce693552 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -138,8 +138,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL(record_mmu_state)
 	b.ne	0f
 	mrs	x19, sctlr_el2
 0:
-CPU_LE( tbnz	x19, #SCTLR_ELx_EE_SHIFT, 1f	)
-CPU_BE( tbz	x19, #SCTLR_ELx_EE_SHIFT, 1f	)
+	tbnz	x19, #SCTLR_ELx_EE_SHIFT, 1f
 	tst	x19, #SCTLR_ELx_C		// Z := (C == 0)
 	and	x19, x19, #SCTLR_ELx_M		// isolate M bit
 	csel	x19, xzr, x19, eq		// clear x19 if Z
-- 
2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog




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