On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:38 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > > @@ -957,6 +984,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(cpu_switch_to) > > mov sp, x9 > > msr sp_el0, x1 > > ptrauth_keys_install_kernel x1, x8, x9, x10 > > + mte_restore_gcr 1, x1, x8, x9 > > scs_save x0, x8 > > scs_load x1, x8 > > ret > > Since we set GCR_EL1 on exception entry and return, why is this needed? > We don't have a per-kernel thread GCR_EL1, it's global to all threads, > so I think cpu_switch_to() should not be touched. Dropping this line from the diff leads to many false-positives... I'll leave this to Vincenzo.
