[PATCH] arm64: scs: Remove redundant save/restore of SCS SP on entry to/from EL0
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Fri Mar 13 05:32:19 PDT 2026
When returning to userspace, the SCS is empty and so the SCS SP just
points to the base address of the SCS page.
Rather than saving and restoring this address in the current task, we
can simply restore the SCS SP to point at the base of the stack on entry
to EL1 from EL0.
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h | 8 ++++++++
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 4 +---
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
I just spotted this by inspection when I was hacking on our exception
entry code.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h
index 0fbc2e7867d3..a15a2968e7b6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/scs.h
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
scs_sp .req x18
+ .macro scs_load_current_base
+ get_current_task scs_sp
+ ldr scs_sp, [scs_sp, #TSK_TI_SCS_BASE]
+ .endm
+
.macro scs_load_current
get_current_task scs_sp
ldr scs_sp, [scs_sp, #TSK_TI_SCS_SP]
@@ -19,6 +24,9 @@
str scs_sp, [\tsk, #TSK_TI_SCS_SP]
.endm
#else
+ .macro scs_load_current_base
+ .endm
+
.macro scs_load_current
.endm
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index f8018b5c1f9a..ab476ba060d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ alternative_if ARM64_HAS_ADDRESS_AUTH
alternative_else_nop_endif
1:
- scs_load_current
+ scs_load_current_base
.else
add x21, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE
get_current_task tsk
@@ -378,8 +378,6 @@ alternative_if ARM64_WORKAROUND_845719
alternative_else_nop_endif
#endif
3:
- scs_save tsk
-
/* Ignore asynchronous tag check faults in the uaccess routines */
ldr x0, [tsk, THREAD_SCTLR_USER]
clear_mte_async_tcf x0
--
2.53.0.851.ga537e3e6e9-goog
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