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Commit afdfd93a authored by Peter Collingbourne's avatar Peter Collingbourne Committed by Catalin Marinas
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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: default avatarPeter 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: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 80c7c36f
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