[PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: insn: drop NOP from steppable hint list

Khaja Hussain Shaik Khaji khaja.khaji at oss.qualcomm.com
Tue Feb 17 05:38:55 PST 2026


NOP is already handled via instruction emulation and does not require
single-stepping. Drop it from aarch64_insn_is_steppable_hint().

Signed-off-by: Khaja Hussain Shaik Khaji <khaja.khaji at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
index e1d30ba99d01..9429f76906e0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/insn.h
@@ -456,7 +456,6 @@ static __always_inline bool aarch64_insn_is_steppable_hint(u32 insn)
 	case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_BTIC:
 	case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_BTIJ:
 	case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_BTIJC:
-	case AARCH64_INSN_HINT_NOP:
 		return true;
 	default:
 		return false;
-- 
2.34.1




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