Re: [PATCH v4 03/17] arm64: kvm: stop treating register x18 as caller save

Marc Zyngier
2019-11-04T13:30:49Z

On 2019-11-04 12:13, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Hi Sami,
>
> On 2019-11-01 23:20, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
>> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>>
>> In preparation of reserving x18, stop treating it as caller save in
>> the KVM guest entry/exit code. Currently, the code assumes there is
>> no need to preserve it for the host, given that it would have been
>> assumed clobbered anyway by the function call to __guest_enter().
>> Instead, preserve its value and restore it upon return.
>>
>> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9836891/
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
>> [Sami: updated commit message, switched from x18 to x29 for the
>> guest
>> context]
>> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> If you intend for this to be merged via the arm64 tree, please add my
>
> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

Erm... Muscle memory strikes again. Please ignore the above and use the
following instead:

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

Thanks,

M.
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