From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, vladimir.murzin@arm.com,
ryan.roberts@arm.com, peterz@infradead.org,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, david.laight.linux@gmail.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org, ruanjinjie@huawei.com,
james.morse@arm.com, yang@os.amperecomputing.com, cl@gentwo.org,
maz@kernel.org, david@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org,
will@kernel.org, ardb@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 09/20] arm64: gpr-num: Add wxN aliases for wN registers
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:04:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804170503.3513916-10-mark.rutland@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260804170503.3513916-1-mark.rutland@arm.com>
Some A64 instructions require a W register name for specific register
arguments, and will not accept an X register name. For example:
STRH <Wt>, [<Xn|SP>, (<Wm>|<Xm>){, <extend> {<amount>}}]
This is painful when writing macros for inline assembly, especially
where a single register is used as both an X register and a W register.
We solved this for plain assembly by adding a wxN alias for each xN
register in commit:
4c4dcd3541f83d21 ("arm64: assembler: introduce wxN aliases for wN registers")
Add the same facility for inline assembly, with a new
__DEFINE_ASM_GPR_ALIASES macro.
As with the other macros in gpr-num.h, different escaping is necessary
for inline vs non-inline assembly, so we can't share a single definition
that we stringify().
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h
index a114e4f8209b0..240cd25d55c5a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/gpr-num.h
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
" .equ .L__gpr_num_xzr, 31\n" \
" .equ .L__gpr_num_wzr, 31\n"
+#define __DEFINE_ASM_GPR_ALIASES \
+" .irp n,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30\n" \
+" wx\\n .req w\\n\n" \
+" .endr\n"
+
#endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
#endif /* __ASM_GPR_NUM_H */
--
2.30.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-04 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-04 17:04 [PATCH v2 00/20] arm64: Preemptible this_cpu_*() operations Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 01/20] arm64: percpu: Fix this_cpu_write() casting Mark Rutland
2026-08-05 8:37 ` David Laight
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 02/20] arm64: percpu: Fix this_cpu_and() mask generation Mark Rutland
2026-08-05 9:14 ` David Laight
2026-08-05 13:02 ` Mark Rutland
2026-08-06 8:28 ` David Laight
2026-08-06 10:23 ` Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 03/20] arm64: cmpxchg: LL/SC: Avoid redundant extension Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] arm64: cmpxchg128: LSE: Remove redundant operands Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 05/20] arm64: preempt: Simplify and optimize __preempt_count_dec_and_test() Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 06/20] arm64: preempt: Treat should_resched() as unlikely Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 07/20] arm64: ptrace: Always inline pt_regs_[read,write}_reg() Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 08/20] arm64: percpu: Factor out percpu offset asm Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] arm64: gpr-num: add __GPR_NUM() helper Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 11/20] arm64: entry: sdei: Restore all clobberable GPRs Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 12/20] arm64: entry: sdei: Make 'tsk' available Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 13/20] arm64: percpu: Add infrastructure for preemptible this_cpu_*() ops Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 22:45 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-05 10:27 ` David Laight
2026-08-05 12:50 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-08-05 6:45 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-05 6:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-06 11:21 ` Mark Rutland
2026-08-06 11:32 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-06 12:02 ` Mark Rutland
2026-08-06 13:25 ` David Laight
2026-08-06 13:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 14/20] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible read/write ops Mark Rutland
2026-08-05 9:24 ` Ryan Roberts
2026-08-05 12:08 ` David Laight
2026-08-05 13:34 ` Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 15/20] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible void RMW ops Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 16/20] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible return " Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 17/20] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible XCHG ops Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 18/20] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible CMPXCHG ops Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 19/20] arm64: percpu: Implement preemptible CMPXCHG128 ops Mark Rutland
2026-08-04 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 20/20] arm64: percpu: Remove _pcp_protect*() wrappers Mark Rutland
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