From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:53424 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966692AbeFSQOP (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:14:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:14:10 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Mark Rutland Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, will.deacon@arm.com, marc.zyngier@arm.com, linux@dominikbrodowski.net, hch@infradead.org, james.morse@arm.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, dave.martin@arm.com Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 00/19] arm64: invoke syscalls with pt_regs Message-ID: <20180619161410.6in5qe5y3ydzbfit@armageddon.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20180618120310.39527-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> <20180619153810.mm4yt3pqjagvjo7p@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180619153810.mm4yt3pqjagvjo7p@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 04:38:10PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > From b47791fe74fce8bb48696ab0cdda48a9bae0e397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Mark Rutland > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:49:54 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] arm64: don't restore GPRs when context tracking > > Now that syscalls are invoked with pt_regs, we no longer need to ensure > that the argument regsiters are live in the entry assembly, and it's > fine to not restore them after context_tracking_user_exit() has > corrupted them. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland > Cc: Catalin Marinas > Cc: Will Deacon Acked-by: Catalin Marinas