[PATCH 4/4] arm64: insn: clean-up sysregs handling
Vladimir Murzin
vladimir.murzin at arm.com
Tue Oct 20 03:45:08 PDT 2026
On 10/16/26 17:46, Ada Couprie Diaz wrote:
> System register encodings are already defined in <asm/sysreg.h>, so
> use those definitions in <asm/insn.h> instead of duplicating them.
> This will avoid future errors and deviations.
>
> Remove the unnecessary shifts for encoding/decoding now that the enum
> values directly match the encoded registers.
>
> No code using the insn register encodings currently makes a distinction
> between "regular" system registers and special-purpose registers,
> so let's just drop the difference and merge the two enums.
> Remove all unused registers while we are here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h | 36 ++++++++------------------
> arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/lib/insn.c | 4 +--
> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
> index e020f9d8b83c2..6533191638804 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> #include <linux/types.h>
>
> #include <asm/insn-def.h>
> +#include <asm/sysreg.h>
>
> #ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
>
> @@ -113,38 +114,23 @@ enum aarch64_insn_register {
> AARCH64_INSN_REG_SP = 31 /* Stack pointer: as load/store base reg */
> };
>
> +/* System register encoding for MRS/MSR (register) instructions. */
> #define AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_OFFSET 5
> #define AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_MASK GENMASK(20, AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_OFFSET)
> +#define AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_FROM_DEF(sysreg) \
bikeshedding: perhaps __AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG to match other helper macro in this
file?
> + AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_##sysreg = SYS_##sysreg
>
> -enum aarch64_insn_special_register {
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SPSR_EL1 = 0xC200,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_ELR_EL1 = 0xC201,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SP_EL0 = 0xC208,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SPSEL = 0xC210,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_CURRENTEL = 0xC212,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_NZCV = 0xDA10,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_DAIF = 0xDA11,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_FPCR = 0xDA20,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_DSPSR_EL0 = 0xDA28,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_DLR_EL0 = 0xDA29,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SPSR_EL2 = 0xE200,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_ELR_EL2 = 0xE201,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SP_EL1 = 0xE208,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SPSR_IRQ = 0xE218,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SPSR_ABT = 0xE219,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SPSR_UND = 0xE21A,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SPSR_FIQ = 0xE21B,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SPSR_EL3 = 0xF200,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_ELR_EL3 = 0xF201,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_SP_EL2 = 0xF208,
> -};
>
The only register in use was AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_DAIF which is
now replaced with direct use of AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_DAIF.
> +/* Do not duplicate encodings: we already define them in <asm/sysreg.h> */
> enum aarch64_insn_system_register {
> - AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_SP_EL0 = 0xC208,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_TPIDR_EL1 = 0xC684,
> - AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_TPIDR_EL2 = 0xE682,
> + AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_FROM_DEF(SP_EL0),
> + AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_FROM_DEF(TPIDR_EL1),
> + AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_FROM_DEF(DAIF),
> + AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_FROM_DEF(TPIDR_EL2),
> };
>
> +#undef AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_FROM_DEF
> +
> enum aarch64_insn_variant {
> AARCH64_INSN_VARIANT_32BIT,
> AARCH64_INSN_VARIANT_64BIT
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
> index 4137cc5ef031f..bb0af08105885 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_is_steppable(u32 insn)
> */
> if (aarch64_insn_is_mrs(insn))
> return aarch64_insn_extract_system_reg(insn)
> - != AARCH64_INSN_SPCLREG_DAIF;
> + != AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_DAIF;
>
> /*
> * The HINT instruction is steppable only if it is in whitelist
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/insn.c b/arch/arm64/lib/insn.c
> index 2edc5a9c0a9c8..1611c86885c9f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/lib/insn.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/insn.c
> @@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@ u32 aarch64_insn_adrp_set_offset(u32 insn, s32 offset)
> */
> noinstr u32 aarch64_insn_extract_system_reg(u32 insn)
> {
> - return (insn & AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_MASK) >> AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_OFFSET;
> + return insn & AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_MASK;
> }
>
> bool aarch32_insn_is_wide(u32 insn)
> @@ -1567,7 +1567,7 @@ u32 aarch64_insn_gen_mrs(enum aarch64_insn_register result,
> u32 insn = aarch64_insn_get_mrs_value();
>
> insn &= ~AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_MASK;
> - insn |= sysreg << AARCH64_INSN_SYSREG_OFFSET;
> + insn |= sysreg;
> return aarch64_insn_encode_register(AARCH64_INSN_REGTYPE_RT,
> insn, result);
> }
> -- 2.43.0
>
FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
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