Re: [PATCH v4 13/17] arm64: preserve x18 when CPU is suspended

Sami Tolvanen
2019-11-05T00:02:38Z

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 1:59 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 1:38 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 5:20 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > ENTRY(cpu_do_suspend)
> > > > mrs x2, tpidr_el0
> > > > @@ -73,6 +75,9 @@ alternative_endif
> > > > stp x8, x9, [x0, #48]
> > > > stp x10, x11, [x0, #64]
> > > > stp x12, x13, [x0, #80]
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK
> > > > + str x18, [x0, #96]
> > > > +#endif
> > >
> > > Do we need the #ifdefery here? We didn't add that to the KVM path,
> > > and I'd feel better having a single behaviour, specially when
> > > NR_CTX_REGS is unconditionally sized to hold 13 regs.
> >
> > I'm fine with dropping the ifdefs here in v5 unless someone objects to this.
>
> Oh, yeah I guess it would be good to be consistent. Rather than drop
> the ifdefs, would you (Marc) be ok with conditionally setting
> NR_CTX_REGS based on CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK, and doing so in KVM?
> (So 3 ifdefs, rather than 0)?
>
> Without any conditionals or comments, it's not clear why x18 is being
> saved and restored (unless git blame survives, or a comment is added
> in place of the ifdefs in v6).

True. Clearing the sleep state buffer in cpu_do_resume is also
pointless without CONFIG_SHADOW_CALL_STACK, so if the ifdefs are
removed, some kind of an explanation is needed there.

Sami