[PATCH v2 15/18] arm64: tls: Avoid unconditional zeroing of tpidrro_el0 for native tasks

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Nov 30 2017 - 11:40:58 EST


When unmapping the kernel at EL0, we use tpidrro_el0 as a scratch register
during exception entry from native tasks and subsequently zero it in
the kernel_ventry macro. We can therefore avoid zeroing tpidrro_el0
in the context-switch path for native tasks using the entry trampoline.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 12 +++++-------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index b2adcce7bc18..aba3a1fb492d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -361,16 +361,14 @@ void tls_preserve_current_state(void)

static void tls_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
{
- unsigned long tpidr, tpidrro;
-
tls_preserve_current_state();

- tpidr = *task_user_tls(next);
- tpidrro = is_compat_thread(task_thread_info(next)) ?
- next->thread.tp_value : 0;
+ if (is_compat_thread(task_thread_info(next)))
+ write_sysreg(next->thread.tp_value, tpidrro_el0);
+ else if (!arm64_kernel_unmapped_at_el0())
+ write_sysreg(0, tpidrro_el0);

- write_sysreg(tpidr, tpidr_el0);
- write_sysreg(tpidrro, tpidrro_el0);
+ write_sysreg(*task_user_tls(next), tpidr_el0);
}

/* Restore the UAO state depending on next's addr_limit */
--
2.1.4