Re: [PATCH RESEND] arm64: entry: drop the unused tmp2 argument of mte_set_kernel_gcr()

[Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>]

On 10/7/26 18:45, Bradley Morgan wrote:
> mte_set_kernel_gcr() takes a tmp2 argument the macro never uses. It
> used to, the body passed \tmp and \tmp2 to mte_set_gcr, then
> commit 82868247897b ("arm64: kasan: mte: use a constant kernel
> GCR_EL1 value") swapped that for
> 
>     mov     \tmp, KERNEL_GCR_EL1
> 
> and tmp2 stayed in the declaration and in the one caller, which
> passes x23 for it.
> 
> Drop it, both places.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>
> ---
> Resending, the first send's body got mangled.
> 
>  arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> index f63049ac32dc..c3106dee61e1 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
>  #endif
>  	.endm
>  
> -	.macro mte_set_kernel_gcr, tmp, tmp2
> +	.macro mte_set_kernel_gcr, tmp
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
>  alternative_cb	ARM64_ALWAYS_SYSTEM, kasan_hw_tags_enable
>  	b	1f
> @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
>  
>  	apply_ssbd 1, x22, x23
>  
> -	mte_set_kernel_gcr x22, x23
> +	mte_set_kernel_gcr x22
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Any non-self-synchronizing system register updates required for
> -- 2.53.0
> 

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>