Commit c8900aab authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel Committed by Sami Tolvanen
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FROMLIST: arm64: kvm: stop treating register x18 as caller save

In preparation of reserving x18, stop treating it as caller save in
the KVM guest entry/exit code. Currently, the code assumes there is
no need to preserve it for the host, given that it would have been
assumed clobbered anyway by the function call to __guest_enter().
Instead, preserve its value and restore it upon return.

Bug: 145210207
Change-Id: I341bcb10b615999a59a8413a6b98cb2ce1c62e02
(am from https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1149065/)
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9836891/


Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
[Sami: updated commit message, switched from x18 to x29 for the guest context]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
parent aab371bf
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