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Mark Rutland
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For historical reasons, the non-KPTI exception return path is duplicated for EL1 and EL0, with the structure: .if \el == 0 [ KPTI handling ] ldr lr, [sp, #S_LR] add sp, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE // restore sp [ EL0 exception return workaround ] eret .else ldr lr, [sp, #S_LR] add sp, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE // restore sp [ EL1 exception return workaround ] eret .endif sb This would be simpler and clearer with the common portions factored out, e.g. .if \el == 0 [ KPTI handling ] .endif ldr lr, [sp, #S_LR] add sp, sp, #PT_REGS_SIZE // restore sp .if \el == 0 [ EL0 exception return workaround ] .else [ EL1 exception return workaround ] .endif eret sb This expands to the same code, but is simpler for a human to follow as it avoids duplicates the restore of LR+SP, and makes it clear that the ERET is associated with the SB. There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240116110221.420467-3-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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