Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] arm64: trap to EL1 accesses to AMU counters from EL0

From: Ionela Voinescu
Date: Thu Jan 23 2020 - 12:35:01 EST


On Thursday 23 Jan 2020 at 17:04:32 (+0000), Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 18/12/2019 18:26, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * reset_amuserenr_el0 - reset AMUSERENR_EL0 if AMUv1 present
> > + */
> > + .macro reset_amuserenr_el0, tmpreg
> > + mrs \tmpreg, id_aa64pfr0_el1 // Check ID_AA64PFR0_EL1
> > + ubfx \tmpreg, \tmpreg, #ID_AA64PFR0_AMU_SHIFT, #4
> > + cbz \tmpreg, 9000f // Skip if no AMU present
> > + msr_s SYS_AMUSERENR_EL0, xzr // Disable AMU access from EL0
> > +9000:
>
> AIUI you can steer away from the obscure numbering scheme and define the
> label using the macro counter:
>
> cbz \tmpreg, .Lskip_\@
> [...]
> .Lskip_\@:
> .endm
>

Cool, good to know! Although calling it "obscure numbering scheme" does
make it more appealing to use.

Thanks, I'll change it in the next version :).

Ionela.

>
> > + .endm