[boot-wrapper 1/7] aarch64: Rename labels and prepare for lower EL booting

Luca Fancellu luca.fancellu at arm.com
Thu Jun 6 06:36:22 PDT 2024


The current code can boot from a lower EL than EL3, but the flag
'flag_no_el3' have the meaning of "Don't drop to a lower EL", so
rename the flag to flag_keep_el.
This is a preparation work to boot on Armv8-R AArch64 which has
no EL3.

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu at arm.com>
---
 arch/aarch64/boot.S | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/aarch64/boot.S b/arch/aarch64/boot.S
index da5fa6548b65..7727475925c1 100644
--- a/arch/aarch64/boot.S
+++ b/arch/aarch64/boot.S
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ reset_no_el3:
 	bl	setup_stack
 
 	mov	w0, #1
-	ldr	x1, =flag_no_el3
+	ldr	x1, =flag_keep_el
 	str	w0, [x1]
 
 	bl	cpu_init_bootwrapper
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ ASM_FUNC(jump_kernel)
 	bl	find_logical_id
 	bl	setup_stack		// Reset stack pointer
 
-	ldr	w0, flag_no_el3
+	ldr	w0, flag_keep_el
 	cmp	w0, #0			// Prepare Z flag
 
 	mov	x0, x20
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ ASM_FUNC(jump_kernel)
 	mov	x3, x23
 
 	b.eq	1f
-	br	x19			// No EL3
+	br	x19			// Keep EL
 
 1:	mov	x4, #SPSR_KERNEL
 
@@ -151,5 +151,5 @@ ASM_FUNC(jump_kernel)
 
 	.data
 	.align 3
-flag_no_el3:
+flag_keep_el:
 	.long 0
-- 
2.34.1




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