[PATCH V4 2/2] arm64/sysreg: Replace TCR_EL1 field macros

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Thu Sep 18 05:08:07 PDT 2025


On Sun, Sep 07, 2025 at 06:00:00PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This just replaces all used TCR_EL1 field macros with tools sysreg variant
> based fields and subsequently drops them from the header (pgtable-hwdef.h)
> and moves all required macros into KVM header (asm/kvm_arm.h) for continued
> usage in KVM.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Cc: kvmarm at lists.linux.dev
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> ---
> Changes in V4:
> 
> - Dropped all unused TCR_XXX macros while moving into KVM header
> 
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h     |  6 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h       |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h       | 43 +++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h   |  4 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 98 +-------------------------
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h  |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c         |  4 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/pi/map_kernel.c      |  8 +--
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vmcore_info.c        |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/mm/proc.S                   | 36 ++++++----
>  tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h |  2 +-

Please don't mix tools/ patches with arch patches. You probably want to keep
the KVM one separate as well.

Will



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