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

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Thu Jun 6 08:54:49 PDT 2024


On Thu,  6 Jun 2024 14:36:22 +0100
Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu at arm.com> wrote:

> 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>

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

Cheers,
Andre

> ---
>  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




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