arm64: mte: optimize GCR_EL1 modification on kernel entry/exit
authorPeter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 01:36:38 +0000 (18:36 -0700)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:40:12 +0000 (18:40 +0100)
commitafdfd93a53aea68837b34da81d442358ff7552f3
treefca4824cab040a175fa4513836edc6c07c9c6776
parent80c7c36fb3ddea8e06f75822bfb7634f64d0edcb
arm64: mte: optimize GCR_EL1 modification on kernel entry/exit

Accessing GCR_EL1 and issuing an ISB can be expensive on some
microarchitectures. Although we must write to GCR_EL1, we can
restructure the code to avoid reading from it because the new value
can be derived entirely from the exclusion mask, which is already in
a GPR. Do so.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I560a190a74176ca4cc5191dad08f77f6b1577c75
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210714013638.3995315-1-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S