[PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: add an MTE support check to the top of mte_thread_switch()

Peter Collingbourne pcc at google.com
Tue Sep 14 14:54:28 PDT 2021


This lets us avoid doing unnecessary work on hardware that does
not support MTE, and will allow us to freely use MTE instructions
in the code called by mte_thread_switch().

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I02fd000d1ef2c86c7d2952a7f099b254ec227a5d
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
index 9d314a3bad3b..8fc2d90eeb00 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
@@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ void mte_thread_init_user(void)
 
 void mte_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
 {
+	if (!system_supports_mte())
+		return;
+
 	mte_update_sctlr_user(next);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.33.0.309.g3052b89438-goog




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