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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2026-09-08 16:17:30 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2026-09-24 14:52:08 +0100
commit47c62b09f03b06e6a991c0efdd7482a337528fa7 (patch)
treee1bbd5b222932a72369c3a4734dc74ca01467872 /tools/perf/scripts/python
parentb7f3aa93f4070e622ecf3cf184d0c639cce6532d (diff)
arm64: gpr-num: Add wxN aliases for wN registers
Some A64 instructions require a W register name for specific register arguments, and will not accept an X register name. For example: STRH <Wt>, [<Xn|SP>, (<Wm>|<Xm>){, <extend> {<amount>}}] This is painful when writing macros for inline assembly, especially where a single register is used as both an X register and a W register. We solved this for plain assembly by adding a wxN alias for each xN register in commit: 4c4dcd3541f83d21 ("arm64: assembler: introduce wxN aliases for wN registers") Add the same facility for inline assembly, with a new __DEFINE_ASM_GPR_ALIASES macro. As with the other macros in gpr-num.h, different escaping is necessary for inline vs non-inline assembly, so we can't share a single definition that we stringify(). Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com> Cc: Ada Couprie Diaz <ada.coupriediaz@arm.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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